expectancy, causes of mortality, maternal and infant mortality, potential years of life lost, perceived health status, suicide …This dataset presents internationally comparable statistics on morbidity and mortality with variables such as life …, infant health, dental health, communicable diseases, cancer, injuries, and absences from work due to illness. …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

mechanisms have special theoretical importance because disparities in health behaviors, unlike disparities in many other … components of health, involve something more than the ability to use income to purchase good health. Based on a review of broad … literatures in sociology, economics, and public health, we classify explanations of higher smoking, lower exercise, poorer diet …