We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

health ; racial disparity …

association between adults’ health and the income inequality they experienced as children up to 80 years earlier. Our inequality … the same early-life years and merge them to CNEF data from both countries that measure self-reported health of individuals … better health if inequality was higher in their first five years of life. Although the trend in inequality is similar in both …

A country's performance in health attainment refers to both its achievement (level) and its improvement (evolution) in … the health domain. Studies on performance generally measure health attainment using the average health level of the … population, and quantify health improvement employing the change in attainment over time. However this approach is flawed because …

This paper investigated the delivery of health services based on data recorded at two medium-sized hospitals: Erenkoy … Mental Health Research and Training Hospital located in Istanbul/Turkey and LVR-Klinik Viersen in Germany. A comparison of … quality management systems in terms of certification and accreditation procedures, satisfaction of patients and health care …