Until recently, there has been a consensus among empirical health economists that there is an association between … income inequality and individual health, in line with Wilkinson's (1992) idea that the psychosocial effects of the former are … effect of country-level income inequality on individuals' health. It is shown that income inequality, whether measured at the …

Can self-assessed health (SAH) be relied upon to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. We document this finding … and assess its robustness to the assumptions routinely made in measuring health and welfare. We find that the expected …

socioeconomic factors on health status in a cohort of British people born in 1958. Using the longitudinal follow-up data at age 23 …, 33, 42 and 46, we build a dynamic model to investigate the influence of each determinant on health and the mediating role … of education and lifestyles in the relationship between early-life conditions and later health. Direct and indirect …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … probability of bad self-reported health by 3.7 percent, with more pronounced impacts among females, older adults, those with lower …

of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …

on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems …