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Utilisation of health services and the poor: deconstructing wealth-based differences in facility-based delivery in the Philippines
Get PDFDifferences in nulliparous caesarean section rates across models of care: a decomposition analysis
Full text linkSpeeding up for a Son: Sex Ratio Imbalances by Birth Interval Among South Asian Migrants to Canada
No full textAbsolute wealth and world region strongly predict overweight among women (ages 18–49) in 360 populations across 36 developing countries
No full textHousehold income, income inequality, and health-related quality of life measured by the EQ-5D in Shaanxi, China: a cross-sectional study
No full textThe South Carolina Multigenerational Linked Birth Dataset: Developing Social Mobility Measures Across Generations to Understand Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes in the US South
No full textThe socioeconomic gradient in health: how important is material deprivation?
No full textIn this paper we use the Spanish Living Conditions Survey (2005\u20132008)
to investigate the existence of a socioeconomic gradient in health when alternative measures of socioeconomic status, apart from income, are considered. In particular we construct a material deprivation index that reflects minimum standards of quality
of life and that incorporates comparison effects with societal peers and we estimate
health equations with probit adapted least squares, fixed effects and instrumental
variables. Our results reveal that the relationship between health and income op-
erates through comparison information with respect to societal peers. In contrast,material deprivation in terms of financial difficulties, basic necessities and housing
conditions exerts a direct effect on individual health. Mixed evidence is found with respect to gender
