It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we …

the age of 50 by parental income for men. However, the longevity gains of men from low-income families seem to have come … disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …

This paper studies mental health and loneliness in the Netherlands for individuals beyond age 50. The analysis is based … health gets worse and loneliness increases if individuals lose their partner or become unemployed. On average, mental health … health improves while loneliness goes down at least up to the high 70s. From the perspective of mental health and loneliness …

accounts for more than half of total spending on this type of care. Average expenditure rises steeply with age and even more so …

income, using administrative data from all applicants for public LTC in Catalonia, from 2011 to 2014. We measure the level of …

Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition … method to unravel the contributions of income growth, income inequality and differential income mobility across socio …-demographic groups to changes in health disparities by income in Spain using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Living …