Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement … infrastructure and financing, and upgrading the capacities of health professionals. This paper seeks to identify the opportunities …, barriers, and risks for the Philippines in participating in global trade in health services. It examines the country …

the Health Sector Reform Strategy. The last section concludes and provides some policy recommendations. …

information needed by policymakers, investors, and other interested stakeholders. To better understand the current health care …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

of the North and the South in the global health arena. … wurden, die die Architektur der 'Global Health Governance' entscheidend verändert haben. …

pflegerische Versorgung erwarten. Daraus ergibt sich die Dringlichkeit zweier gesellschaftspolitischer Ziele: die Gesundheit der …Health inequalities in old age: Starting points for community-based prevention Maintaining the health of older people … to considerably increase the pressure on medical and nursing services. Since health inequalities persist well into the …

explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic … conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the effect of current health care facilities. Specific attention is paid to …