objective health measures. -- Health inequality ; concentration index ; income measurement ; SOEP … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … the psychosocial effect of individual i’s low relative income on his health. …There is a presumption that when an individual’s comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison …

income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … psychosocial effect of individual i's low relative income on his health. …There is a presumption that when an individual's comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison …

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 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 …

various health shocks for the individual and a wider family. To obtain causal effects, I focus on the role of medical … that medical innovations strongly mitigate the negative economic consequences of a health shock for the individual and … create spillovers to relatives. Such mitigating effects are highly heterogeneous across diagnoses that cause health shocks …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we …

Background The use of self-reported measures of chronic disease may substantially underestimate prevalence in low-income … and middle-income country settings, especially in groups with lower socioeconomic status (SES). We sought to determine …-representative data sets of the WHO Study of Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), 2007-2010 (n=42,464), we calculated wealth-related and …

U.S. income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades. Researchers consistently find that greater income … SWB data from the U.S. Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index and income inequality data from the American Community Survey …, and health measures) to examine the consistency of the relationship. We find that the relationship is both scale …