Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be … extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an … there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and …

This paper reports an analysis of income related health inequalities at the Autonomous Community level in Spain using … the self assessed health measure in the 2001 edition of the Encuesta Nacional de Salud. We use recently developed methods … in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health within a regression framework, decompose the sources of inequality …

This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of income related health inequalities in Spain over the period 1987 …-2001. We use recently developed methods in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health within a regression framework …, decompose the sources of inequality and explain the observed differences between 1987 (one year after the 1986 General Health …

We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of … either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective … income, health or socioeconomic health. This puts restrictions on measures of socioeconomic health inequality, where a …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of the well-being of the population. This chapter … health policy making in low-income countries. The models presented could help address questions such as: How can the health … of the poor be improved, and what are the economic consequences of better health? What policies would improve intra …