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Economic Inequality and Health: Looking Beyond Aggregate Indicators [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators.
Uutela, Antti +3 more
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Redefining Decoupled Water Electrolysis as an Integrated Hydrogen‐Carrier Platform
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.This Perspective focuses on transportable solution‐phase proton‐coupled mediators and evaluates them using carrier‐level capacity, retention, energy, release, pressure, purity, and closed‐loop logistics boundaries; solid and device‐bound systems are shown as explicit boundary cases.
Junghye Lee +4 more
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Journal of Eating Disorders, 2017 Background Little is known about the epidemiology and health related quality of life (HRQoL) of the new DSM-5 diagnoses, Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in the Australian population.
Phillipa Hay +5 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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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Reducing health inequalities is a key objective for many governments and public health organizations. Whether inequalities are measured on the absolute (difference) or relative (ratio) scale can have a significant impact on judgments about whether health
Sam Harper +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using nationwide data on the US Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Management Plan (RMP) program, we examine the proportions of underserved populations living near facilities that use extremely hazardous chemicals, both before and after accidents involving fires, explosions, and/or toxic vapors occur.
Karlee Cook +3 more
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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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Health ExpectationsIntroduction Health inequities disproportionately affect people from ethnic minority communities and require a comprehensive effort across healthcare disciplines to tackle them.
Caitlin Shaw +3 more
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Health Care Quality and Economic Inequality [PDF]
We argue that health care quality has an important impact on economic inequality and on saving behaviour. We exploit district-wide variability in health care quality provided by the Italian universal public health system to identify the effect of quality
Tullio Jappelli +2 more
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