The Gini coefficient has been the most popular method for operationalising income
inequality in the public health literature. However, a number of alternative methods exist …

Objectives This report reviews the evidence on the hypothesis that education has important
social impacts on health. In reviewing the evidence, we highlight those studies that have …

Social status is one of the strongest predictors of human disease risk and mortality, and it
also influences Darwinian fitness in social mammals more generally. To understand the …

Interest in studying the impact of acculturation on immigrant health has increased in tandem
with the growth of the Latino population in the United States. Linear assimilation models …

Causal thinking in public health, and especially in the growing literature on social
determinants of health, routinely employs the terminology of proximal (or downstream) and …

We conduct a large-scale economics experiment paired with a survey to examine the
association between individual risk preference and health-related behaviors among adults …

Objectives. Time perspective describes how individuals conceptualize and value future
events, and may be related to health behaviours. Research to date has focused on addictive …

Denne rapporten handler om sosial ulikhet i helse i Norge–omfang, utviklingstrekk, årsaker
og konsekvenser, og den politikken norske myndigheter fører og bør føre for å redusere …

Delay discounting (DD) is the preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed
rewards. Research shows episodic future thinking (EFT), or mentally simulating future …

Objectives. Individuals may cope with perceived stress through unhealthy but often
pleasurable behaviors. We examined whether smoking, alcohol use, and physical inactivity …