BACKGROUND Income is not frequently used to monitor health equity on a national level largely due to the lack of public data on income. Information on income allows policy makers to identify the economically disadvantaged population in a country directly. We examined differences in life expectancy (LE) at birth by income and quantified age- and cause-specific contributions to the LE differences...

We study to what extent the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is representative of all income groups, but with a particular emphasis on low-income groups. To focus on the HRS sample composition and abstract from potential measurement issues associated with measures of income and program participation, we exploit the SSA administrative data matched to the HRS sample and compare their distributio...

It is a question of income. The increase in the global inequality of income distribution has to do with the global distribution of property and property rights. At present the richest 1% of the world’s population has income equal to that of the bottom 57%, in other words, ca. 50 million wealthy people have the same amount of money at their disposal as 2.7 billion poor. The top 10% of the U.S. p...

Most readers of this article are already familiar with images of “the earth at night.” Looking at such images, it is easy to see that the brightness of visible lights is strongly related to both population density and income per capita. The effect of population density shows up in the visibility of urban agglomerations, coastlines, river valleys, and the higher density of population along the p...

BACKGROUND The inverse association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and health has been extensively explored in Italy; however few studies have been carried out on the relationship between income inequalities and health status or health services utilisation, particularly at a local level.The objective of this study is to test the association between the demand for hospital care and a small ...