The on-going and seemingly endless financial crisis within the European union in conjunction with the austerity measures implemented by a number of member states, have caused a great deal of speculation to emerge regarding the appropriate policy responses needed to put the already derailed...

This study revisits the existing relationship between income inequality and population health by subjecting it to a battery of empirical testing using different measures of inequality and health outcomes for 33 high-income OECD countries. Apart from the impact of macroeconomic covariates we also...