health does not have to wait for an improved economy; rather, measures to reduce the burden of disease, to give children …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 …

We study jointly the health perception of the elderly and the care giving decision of their adult children. Social … depends on the determinants of adult children's decision to care: Parents' health may be modelled as a common good for parents … interactions play a crucial role: elder parents' health perception depends on relations with household members. On the other hand …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to study the relationship between health status and … economic welfare at household level. We develop a model to estimate the welfare cost of ill health by exploiting the … methodology of the equivalence scales. The crucial variables in this approach are, besides the health status (measured in several …

threat of AIDS to the couple and their children. The study explicitly allows for the possibility that important …

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 … include individual education, social class, housing tenure, age, gender and income. The estimated effects of relative income …

progress in terms of increasing life expectancy. Within the theoretical context of Health Transition, the authors provide a …

allow a time varying measurement of SES, health and behavior. Event-history-analysis is applied to analyze mortality … decreasing health. The first finding that health rather than age is the equalizer combined with the second finding of unequally … distributed health leads to the conclusion that in old age, the impact of SES is transferred to health and is stable across ages. …

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality … unknown. The data used for our analysis come from the US Health and Retirement Study (n=9376) and from the Danish Demographic … Database (Denmark’s population above age 58). They offer detailed information about SES and health information. The technique …