Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of … either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective … income, health or socioeconomic health. This puts restrictions on measures of socioeconomic health inequality, where a …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

We explore what health-capital theory has to offer in terms of informing and directing research into health inequality … health interact. Our reading of the literature, and our own work, leads us to conclude that non-degenerate versions of the … Grossman model and its extensions can explain many salient stylized facts on health inequalities. Yet, further development is …

The authors explore what health-capital theory has to offer in terms of informing and directing research into health … and health interact. Their reading of the literature, and their own work, leads them to conclude that non …-degenerate versions of the Grossman model (1972a;b) and its extensions can explain many salient stylized facts on health inequalities. Yet …

We explore what health-capital theory has to offer in terms of informing and directing research into health inequality … health interact. Our reading of the literature, and our own work, leads us to conclude that non-degenerate versions of the … Grossman model (1972a;b) and its extensions can explain many salient stylized facts on health inequalities. Yet, further …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured … by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021. …

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …