life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

health. The measure combines health and mortality information into a single indicator with weights that quantify the …We propose a new summary measure of population health (SMPH) called well-being-adjusted healthy life expectancy (WAHE …). WAHE belongs to a subgroup of health-adjusted life expectancy indicators and measures life expectancy equivalent to full …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …