This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the ne gative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is de trimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a … health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different cities throughout the world. The initial assumption is that the socio …-economic inequalities found within cities give rise to specific problems of health and social breakdowns and can, in certain cases, lead to …

health aid and remittances contribute to reduce child health disparities between countries, the paper addresses two other … questions. What is the net effect of migration when the brain drain of health workers is accounted for? What is the effective … impact of aid and remittances on intra-country child health disparities? Our results suggest that both remittances and health …

France. We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of …We study the psychosocial determinants of self-assessed health in order to explain social inequalities in health in … for the link between the subjective perception of psychosocial resources and health. Sense of control at work is the most …

This study aims to analyse the impact of the measurement of health status on socioeconomic inequalities in health. A … MIMIC model with structural equations is used to create a latent variable of health status from four health indicators … : self-assessed health, report of chronic diseases, report of activity limitations and mental health. Then, we disentangle …

Index (BMI) and related weight measures. Based on the 2004 and 2006 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in …

Contrary to the traditional view of the health care consumer as an economic agent whose sove-reignty is attenuated, we … argue that he is far less ignorant and far less deprived of reason than it is supposed by the tutelary model of health …, informed and active health care consumer emerges thus in health economics, who will tend to exert his autonomy and his …

infrastructure and the Demographic and Health Surveys collected in six African countries. Firstly we show that living in proximity to …