ECONOMIC STATUS, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND HEALTH INEQUALITY

经济地位和经济状况之间存在着公认的相关性。 健康状况：更富有的人比那些人更健康，寿命更长 他们更穷。尽管经济地位和经济状况之间的相关性 健康是有据可查的，但人们对此还没有很好的理解。目的 该项目旨在研究健康和经济状况之间的联系，以 研究财富和健康之间的关系是如何随着时间的推移而演变的 生命周期随着人们年龄的增长，并比较财富之间的关系 随着人们年龄的增长，健康在生命周期中不断演变，比较 不同国家之间和人口内部不同群体之间的关系。这个 该项目的总体目标是更好地了解 将健康状况和经济状况联系起来。子项目包含五个相互关联的 相关内容：1)我们将构建生命的理论模型- 收入、消费、财富和健康状况的周期演变，以及 将使这些模型适合数据；2)我们将重新检查“梯度”，即 社会经济状况和健康状况之间的联系，使用来自 几个国家的各种来源，以更好地了解 经济状况影响健康的机制和健康影响 经济地位；3)我们将调查经济状况的假设 不平等本身是健康状况的决定因素；4)我们将使用 来自南非的证据，那里慷慨的养老金制度最近 已扩展到年长的非白人非洲人，以更好地了解 金钱对老年人健康的影响；以及5)我们将研究 对老年人财富平等和退休收入平等的影响 个人储蓄中私人财富积累增加的老年人 帐户，如401(K)S，并评估后果(如果有) 死亡率和发病率。

There is a well-established correlation between economic status and health status: wealthier people are healthier and live longer than those who are poorer. Although the correlation between economic status and health is well-documented, it is not well understood. The purpose of this project is to examine links between health and economic status, to study how the relationship between wealth and health evolves over the life-cycle as people age, and compare the relationship between wealth and health evolves over the life-cycle as people age, and to compare the relationship across nations and across subgroups within populations. The broad goal of the project is to better understand the mechanisms that link health and economic status. The subproject contains five inter- related pieces: 1) We will construct theoretical models of the life- cycle evolution of income, consumption, wealth, and health status, and will fit these models to data; 2) We will re-examine the "gradient," the link between socioeconomic status and health status, using data from a variety of sources in several countries, to better understand the mechanisms by which economic status affects health and health affects economic status; 3) We will investigate the hypothesis that economic inequality is itself a determinant of health status; 4) We will use evidence from South Africa where a generous pension system has recently been extended to elderly non-white Africans, to better understand the effects of money on the health of the elderly; and 5) We will examine the effects on the equality of wealth and retirement income among the elderly of increased accumulations of private wealth in personal saving accounts such as 401(k)s, and to assess the consequences (if any) for mortality and morbidity.