There are many pathways explaining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health; one possibility is that … some normally unobservable characteristic causes people to invest both in their financial well-being and their health. Here … we consider the possibility that the decision making processes are similar across domains and that the steps individuals …

There are many pathways explaining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health; one possibility is that … some normally unobservable characteristic causes people to invest both in their financial well-being and their health. Here … we consider the possibility that the decision making processes are similar across domains and that the steps individuals …

combination of public health measures, rising living standards, and new medical knowledge all played their part in this. Even if … AMR increases, the continuing effect of these factors and of new public health measures can limit the negative …

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 …