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 … savings decisions and decisions in the health domain. Choices in both domains have long-term consequences and therefore …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

We investigate the relationship between household debt and health outcomes for OECD countries over the period 1995 to … 2012. Using a dataset of aggregated, standardized and objective measures of household debt and health outcomes, we estimate … an instrumental variable (GMM) model in order to deal with endogeneity and reverse causality concerns between health and …

multisector response (including the health, agriculture, and veterinary sectors), global coordination, and financing mechanisms …

several health outcomes and find that, in general, increased openness is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and …, but not all, of the positive association between openness and health may result from more open economies receiving more …

, are growing, and are related to several economic, social and health sector variables. Global efforts to deal with this …

Background: A world divided by health inequalities poses ethical challenges for global health. International and … national responses to health disparities must be rooted in ethical values about health and its distribution; this is because … health justice. Aim: To study why global health inequalities are morally troubling, why efforts to reduce them are morally …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships …