The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough … understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income …). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only partially understood. The adage 'health is wealth' is still, primarily, an …

that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven …

effect of income inequality on mortality rates for men and women in a subset of OECD countries over nearly six decades from … 1950-2008. Using adult mortality rates at aged sixty-five as the outcome measure of mortality, the latest available data on … the relationship. The findings show that income inequality has a negative effect on mortality rates for both men and women …

that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven …

This paper investigates the impact of delaying retirement on mortality among the French population. We take advantage … mortality. We use administrative data which provide detailed information on career characteristics, dates of birth and death … minimum detectable effects (MDEs). Our MDE estimates suggest that, if an impact of later retirement on mortality would be …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14%. We argue that this estimate … constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also document a sharp drop in violent …

This article examines the relationship of sector budget support to the health sector and the infant mortality rate for … generalized method of moments (GMM). Health sector aid, in general, has a significant and negative effect on the infant mortality …. The results indicate that sector budget support might not be the superior choice among the aid modalities in the health …

are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they … associated with health. The German data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which respondents have been interviewed …

. This paper uses data from SHARELIFE to shed light on the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss on health. The … considered to be exogenous to the individual, and lay-offs, where the causal direction of health and unemployment is ambiguous … health to assess long-term health consequences of job loss, which has to have occurred at least 25 years before the current …

zwar die Gesundheit der AnwohnerInnen positiv beeinflussen, jedoch ihre Lebenszufriedenheit temporär verringern. Abhängig …