This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Health Economics</I> (2012). Volume 21, issue 4, pages 367-385.<P …> Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is not … individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of China …

This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The … assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by funds and …

> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

Forthcoming in 'Health Economics'.<P> The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wage workers; however …, the cause of this health difference is largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study …-employment on health (benefit effect), or a health-related selection of individuals into self-employment (barrier effect). Our main …

Distribution', volume 2B, North Holland, Elsevier, chapter 18, 143 pages.<P> We examine the relationship between income and health … with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income … inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health …

child. By setting standards in health care; education; and legal, civil and social services, it tried to protect the basic …

How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption … liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter? Despite the acute concern … of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject matter empirically void …

Christian Health Associations (CHAs) – umbrella networks of faith-inspired health providers – have become a solid … presence in the collaborative environment of African health systems. Established through sometimes trial-and-error attempts to … draw together disparate faith-based health providers who were disconnected from each other, and also unaligned with …