concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada …This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that … and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income level and income drops on all-cause mortality in Canada and the United …

real terms. Ninety five per cent of the income of medical schemes was derived from membership fees. The average real growth … rate of income was 8.4 per cent, while net assets increased by only 3 per cent. An average deficit of R11.02 million …

die Sterblichkeit in Deutschland stärker einem Nord\Ost-Sued\West-Trend als einem einem Ost-West-Trend. Das Pro-Kopf-Einkommen …/east to south/west trend than a mere east to west trend. Per capita income has a large and significant impact on mortality in …Der Tod macht alle Menschen gleich, dennoch sind nicht alle gleichmäßig betroffen. Unterschiede in der Sterblichkeit …

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … between national income per capita and life expectancy. Other studies (e.g., those reviewed in Cochrane et al., 1980) have … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be …

life-style choices (drinking, smoking, exercise) and income on six measures of health in the US Health and Retirement Study …, (3) mental health indicators, (4) BMI, (5) the presence of serious long-term health conditions, and (6) mortality. We …Survey-based health research is in a boom phase following an increased amount of health spending in OECD countries and …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …

Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …

Recent research has provided strong evidence that, in the United States in particular and in high- or middle-income … economies in general, mortality tends to evolve better in recessions than in expansions. It has been suggested that Sweden may … be an exception to this pattern. The present investigation shows, however, that in the period 1968–2003 mortality …

Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Data on disease-specific child mortality were from the World Health Organization. Data on the …Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health … child mortality as a result of interventions related to the environmental and nutritional MDGs (improving child nutrition …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to controlfor individual unobservable heterogeneity … health we find evidence of a significant positive effect of current income on health. However, after controlling for …