We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …

This paper is not an doctrinal exposition of the human right to health or its application to Nigeria. Instead, it is an … analysis of key public health issues impacting upon the actualization of the right in the country. More of a report, its … objective is to present a reliable account of the numerous factors responsible for the poor state of the health system. It calls …

Despite unprecedented health improvements in twentieth century England and Wales there have been a limited number of … methodology which was established to overcome the problems associated with measuring historical health, and generate quantitative … exist. The value of twentieth century health gains in England and Wales are estimated to be in excess of 8 billion (1990 …

, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …