Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … relations. We present a life-cycle model that incorporates multiple mechanisms explaining (jointly) a large part of the observed … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more …