This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

gender-specific differences in health, i.e. the so-called "gender health gap", in the same age group. Self-assessed general … health in 2013 reveals no significant differences between men and women in the countries studied. However, gender … the sexes. Although the study does not measure causal relationships between income and health, the results indicate that …

health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and specific mental health issues, with these … emphasising the pivotal role of attitudes in predicting significant economic and health outcomes, thus opening up a new pathway …

of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging a nationally representative sample of older Americans from the Health and ….0-7.0% after further controlling for comprehensive socioeconomic and health factors over the life course, and are robust to the …, and early-life environments to promote health equity over the life course. …

This paper estimates and decomposes income-related health inequality for people nearing retirement age in the US by … analyzing data from Health and Retirement Study. To reveal the whole picture of health deterioration with respect to income … ranking, we use Petrie et al. (2011)’s newly proposed income and health mobility, explicitly accounting for the dead in a …

This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in … the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss … how various circumstances may coalesce and manifest in shaping long-term health …