Dass die medizinischen Ressourcen nicht reichen könnten, macht in dieser Krise Angst. Dabei ist die Knappheit die Grundsituation der Gesundheitspolitik.

We provide an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiplecountries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at olderages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage, much of the analysis is at an earlystage and limited to a...