Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible problems with self- reported health …, including endogeneity and measurement error, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for … health care. After demonstrating the logic of the investigation, the paper recapitulates the information about results of …

skills (such as literacy) to a large extent, but income, health knowledge, and fertility preferences also play a role. The …

, health, nutrition and education are explicitly simultaneous. We find a unidirectional relationship that improving basic … their situation. Channelling resources towards improving health, education and nutrition could bring dramatic economic …

We investigate whether job loss as the result of displacement causes ill health. In doing this we use much better data … than any previous investigators. Our data are a random 10% sample of the adult population of Denmark for the years 1981 …-1999. For this large representative panel we have very full records on demographics, health and work status for each person …

health as well as recently developed nonparametric tests for stochastic dominance to assess whether the quantity … size are only possible if one accounts for ‘dispersion’ in child health. Moreover, the magnitude of the trade-off is not …

This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public infrastructure on the … health of children in Ghana. We focus on child survival, child height and weight using data from the Ghana Living Standards … Survey. The results suggest an important role for public health policy in eliminating the rural-urban disparities in health …

availability and quality of health care services and increases in relative food prices. The health of Ivorians was probably …