The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison …

This paper explores the relationship between public housing and health outcomes among low-income housing residents … nutritious food and health care. In addition, public housing may be of higher quality than the available alternatives, it may … provide easier access to health clinics willing to serve the poor, and it may link residents to social support networks, which …

components of well-being, such as economic status, health, family circumstances, and even human and political rights. Layard …

of health. We wonder about the relevance of two approaches, the first one considers health as a public good, and the … prevailing in the world governance for health. …

This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved … (GSOEP) we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection … corrections are necessary. Good health leads to higher wages for men, while there appears to be no significant effect for women …

The correlation between health and economic performance is extremely robust across communities and over time. Many … factors exogenous to income play an important role in determining health status, including a number of geographical …, environmental, and evolutionary factors. This suggests the existence of simultaneous impacts of health on wealth and wealth on …

The paper reviews the theoretical basis for the application of user fees in the public health sector in low … efficiency result of the market mechanism is shown to be the theoretical justification for the financing of health services via a …