population health exist in the European Union. More than half of this variation remains unexplained after accounting for macro … market factors and income shape the prevalence of poor self-assessed health in the EU. For this purpose, we use a semi …-parametric decomposition approach, which relies on constructing synthetic distributions of health that would prevail in each country if they …

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 … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …