Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health …

of the super-wealthy or the top 0.01% of the population effect overall health of the population? This paper focuses on …

health capital index. …

population groups. Our review suggests that vulnerable workers were at more health risks than the general population. The … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable …

We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis …-linear positive relation between economic resources and health, confirming the AIH. For the RIH we find sensitivity to what reference … affect health negatively, we find higher income inequality to robustly associate with better child health. The results …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the …-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate. Controlling for per capita income, we find an …

Purpose: In middle-income countries, interest in the study of inequalities in health has focused on aggregate types of … health outcomes, like rates of mortality. This work moves beyond such measures to focus on disease-specific health outcomes … with the use of national health survey data. Methods: Cross-sectional data from the national Health and Welfare Survey 2003 …

This study addresses the issue of psychosocial determinants of health, i.e. non material resources such as social … capital, social support, and sense of control or self-esteem. We firstly analyse their impact on health status in addition to … psychosocial factors can partly explain social inequalities in health in France. Whereas the impact of psychosocial resources on …