the magnitude of health gains associated with higher SES. The study sample, 1268 African–American women and 2066 white … worse health than comparable African–Americans. Conditioning on multiple measures of SES eliminated race disparities in … health benefits of education and net worth, but not income. A discussion of current public policies that affect race …

The public health literature on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social … connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this hypothesis on a … self-reported health. The frequency of meetings with friends is significantly and positively correlated with good health in …

Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 13,556) to show that U.S. adolescents whose parents described their health as “fair … better levels of health. We do not observe any association between parental health and the likelihood of attending college … likely among those whose parents reported better health when they were adolescents. This association persists despite a wide …

between the effects of different components of SC on health. This study examined the relationship between contextual SC and … health (self-rated health, and co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors such as smoking, drinking, overweight/underweight and … which components of contextual SC had what effects on health. In 2009, we randomly selected 4123 residents, aged 20 years …

health of migrants. Nevertheless, direct evidence for these two hypotheses, particularly the “salmon bias,” is limited. Using …-reported health is associated with an individual's decision to migrate and the distance of migration. To test the salmon bias … hypothesis, we compare the self-reported health of migrants who stay in destinations and who return or move closer to home …

Higher social capital is associated with improved mental and physical health and reduced risk of premature mortality …. We explored the relationship between five measures of structural social capital and 1) intermediate health outcomes … cause mortality). We did so using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III 1988–1994 linked to the National …

The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in … data from the Ministry of Health. Using poverty mapping techniques and simple regression analysis, this paper aims to …

determinants of life expectancy gain (considered as an indicator of global health improvement at country level). In order to treat … system GMM. Our analyses show that income is critical for health enhancement. Particularly, we find that GDP per capita is … sanitation and safe water appear positively correlated health gain. In contrast the high incidence of extreme poverty is …

This paper has been designed to investigate whether health accelerate economic growth in Pakistan. The study is using … Accounting Method shows that Total Factor Productivity, Capital and health contributed 46.61%, 43.15% and 2.61% to growth rate of … GDP per capita during 1971-2008. The Ordinary Least Squares results showed health, labour and Research and Development as …