I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of … conclude that there is no direct link from income inequality to ill-health; individuals are no more likely to die if they live … not a health risk does not deny the importance for health of other inequalities, nor of the social environment. Whether …

socioeconomic disparities in the burden of disease. Implications for health care policy are: (1) enhanced physiological capital has … done more to reduce inequities in health status than has wider access to health care; (2) the main contribution of more … rate of depreciation; (4) lifestyle change is the most important issue affecting health equity in rich countries; and (5 …

formal analysis of disability insurance programs, with this key question: Given health status, to what extent are the … mortality as one indicator of health that is comparable across countries and over time in the same country. We then consider how … mortality is related to other indicators of health status, in particular self-assessed health and then how trends in DI …

closely linked to DI reforms than to changes in health and that reducing access to DI would raise labor supply. This seventh … the health capacity to work, asking how much older individuals today could work if they worked as much as those with the … same mortality rate in the past or as younger individuals in similar health. Both methods suggest there is significant …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …