obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the time period and that poorer income groups exhibited the strongest …

Urbanization has been progressing quickly in Indonesia and the consequences on health and health inequities are still … not well understood. In this paper, we present new empirical evidence on the differences in the utilization of health care … services between rural and urban areas as well as for the respective health inequities. Exploiting the rich data set of the …

obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the time period and that poorer income groups exhibited the strongest …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …

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 …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …