Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …

After reviewing over 300 published papers on frontier efficiency measurement, the techniques used are mainly non …. Applications both to hospitals and wider health care areas are reviewed and summarised, and some meta-type analysis undertaken …