We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

income change and health indicators. Using data on life expectancy, infant mortality and income for a small subset of largely …This paper discusses historical and recent cross-country evidence relating income to measures of health. After a review … wealthy countries over the 1913-1999 period, the paper examines correlations between income and health at period start and end …