well understood in economics. This paper presents a model where absenteeism is understood in relation to health. Its main … excess long-term absenteeism and (iii) strict regimes lead to excess short-term absenteeism. (iv) Maximizing health is not …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …

<strong>Introduction:</strong> In the current economic context, all partners in health care delivery systems, be they … public or private, are obliged to identify the factors that influence the utilization of health care services. To improve our … understanding of the phenomena that underlie these relationships, Statistics Canada and the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the inuence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … eects logit, that allows for individual-specic reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and heterogeneity in the …

According to the relative income hypothesis, an individual's health depends on the distribution of income in a … measures of relative income, national and regional reference groups, and two measures of self assessed health. All models …-Lambert-Yitzhaki measures of relative deprivation are generally negatively associated with individual health, though most such models do not …

The paper discusses the poor health statistics for children in the age group of 11-19. The main reasons for … deteriorating health are identified as reduction in cost of food products, lack of physical education and junk-food marketing. The … paper also brings out the importance of having a healthy media environment which develops health and nutrition awareness …

This chapter goes beyond the traditional economic thinking about the relationship between health and income – simply … stated: wealth is needed to achieve health – by presenting evidence that population health is an important factor in … Millennium Development Goals. Three of these eight goals pertain to health: reducing child mortality, improving maternal health …

major drivers of the predicted takeoffs are improved health, increased openness to trade, and a rising labor force …

caused by worsening health in old age. Our model explains the long-run decline in the age of retirement as an income level … effect. We show that improvements in health and longevity tend to increase the desired retirement age, though less than …