The association of health and social status is widely recognized. As this phenomenon is often regarded as being undesirable from a normative point of view, the evaluation of its causes and effects has a high relevance from a policy perspective.

Covered Topics: 

  • Measurement, Decomposition and Quantitative Analysis of Health Inequality
  • Poverty, Income Inequality and Emergence of Social Gradients in Health
  • Health Inequalities and its Long-term and Intergenerational Impacts on Human Capital Formation
  • Health Inequalities in Low and Middle Income Countries - Role of Institutions, policy perspectives and unique challenges for under-resourced countries  
  • Distributive Justice and Health

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