It is a widely shared view in the population health field that the future of the analysis of population health lies in the assessment both of the length of life and health-adjusted quality of life, and the parallel examination of the average health and health distribution within a population....

This paper asks who within a polity underestimates inequality and what consequences does this underestimation have for politics. Previous studies show that people misperceive overall inequality or where their own income is in the income distribution. In Japan, there are more people who...

Using time series techniques, this paper examines the relationship between the suicide rate and income inequality in Japan. Since both the suicide rate and income inequality (Gini coefficient) in Japan are integrated of order one for the sample period 1951–2007, the existence of cointegration...