different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition … using the height of young children as our measure of well-being. Similar to the income literature, we find that shifts in …

Objective: To study cross-national inequalities in mortality of adults and of children aged <5 years using a novel …, 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 …

This study explores global inequality in health status and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height as our health indicator since it avoids the measurement pitfalls of more traditional … measures of health such as morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy. It also avoids measurement problems associated with using …

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

The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. Death and ill health on such a … concerns that led the international community to put health firmly at the center of the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) when … health globally, especially in developing countries calls for committed and renewed focus on what works on-the-ground without …

socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …