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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019 Background Population ageing in China has brought increasing attention to the health inequalities of the elderly. The purpose of this paper is to measure income-related health inequality among the elderly in China and decompose its causes.
Hai Gu +8 more
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Income inequality and health status: role of institutions quality [PDF]
This paper investigates the relationships between health indicators, institutional variables and income inequality. In the economic literature, the impact of income distribution on health status is largely studied.
Alassane Drabo
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Status, taste and distinction in consumer culture: acknowledging the symbolic dimensions of inequality [PDF]
, 2008 The relationship between social position and health has been the focus of extensive public health debate. In the UK and elsewhere, most researchers have focused on physical aspects of health, using indicators such as mortality and morbidity to draw a ...
Archer +46 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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HEALTH, HEALTH INSURANCE, AND INEQUALITY
International Economic ReviewAbstractThis article identifies a “health premium” of insurance coverage: insured individuals are more likely to maintain good health or recover from poor health. We introduce this feature into a prototypical macrohealth model and estimate the baseline economy by matching the observed joint distribution of health insurance, health, and income over the ...
Chaoran Chen, Zhigang Feng, Jiaying Gu
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Changes in inequality and poverty in Latin America: Looking beyond income to health and education [PDF]
This paper uses Demographic and Health Survey data from six Latin American countries to analyze levels and trends of inequality for two important non-income measures of wellbeing, childrenz s stature and adult womenq s educational attainment. Our purpose
David E. Sahn, Stephen D. Younger
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Spatial Comparisons of Poverty and Inequality in Living Standards in Malawi [PDF]
The paper looks at poverty and inequality across areas in Malawi. The focus is on both monetary (consumption) and non monetary (health and education) dimensions of well being.
Mussa, Richard
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Income related inequalities in self assessed health in Britain: 1979-1995 [PDF]
, 2003 Study objective: To measure and decompose income related inequalities in self assessed health in England, Scotland, and Wales, 1979-1995. Design: The relation between individual health and a non-linear transformation of equivalised income, allowing for ...
Gravelle, H, Sutton, M
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Global Health ActionBackground Although Nepal ratified the Palermo Protocol in 2020, significant challenges persist in fully meeting the protocol’s standards on preventing trafficking, protecting survivors, prosecuting traffickers, and reintegrating survivors.
Ranjila Joshi +5 more
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