This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of … results. After controlling for endogeneity we find that increased wealth is strongly associated with increased health status …, raising questions regarding the reliability of such data and promoting a multiplicity based approach to representing health …

, 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 …

health and social care. This project explored the opinions of a sample of UK decision-makers on the relevance of wellbeing …) for resource allocation decisions within health and social care. Through these discussions we draw out the perceived … than just measuring health. Three focus groups were conducted: with members of the National Institute for Health and Care …

One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

associated with the greater use of health and education services. Our results, for Ireland in the year 2000, show that it is …