OBJECTIVE: To describe the effects of social inequities on the health and nutrition of children in low and middle … income countries. METHODS: We reviewed existing data on socioeconomic disparities within-countries relative to the use of …, differential health outcomes, and differential consequences. The search of the PubMed database since 1990 identified 244 articles …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …

. Incorporating deaths into the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities provides a more complete picture in terms … mortality-related attrition, changes the direction of the relationship between relative health changes and initial income …This paper develops an accounting framework to consider the effect of deaths on the longitudinal analysis of income …