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 …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … distributions is ignored. -- Income ; health ; global distribution ; inequality ; poverty …

focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per … gains depended on economic growth but also on the advancement in medical knowledge. The pace and breadth of the health …