The 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (“Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi” Commission) concluded that we should move away from over …
Evidence for the effectiveness of patient education programmes in changing individual self- management behaviour is equivocal. More distal elements of personal social relationships …
F Sabatini - Social Science & Medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a …
N Sirven, T Debrand - Social science & medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
Using the Survey of Health, Ageing & retirement in Europe (SHARE) data for respondents aged 50 years and over in 2004, this study evaluates the potential contribution of increased …
GD De Luca, X Lin - Health policy, 2024 - Elsevier
High levels of violence and insecurity are highly detrimental for societies. United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 is advocating for peaceful, accountable and inclusive …
The public health literature on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on …
M Vogl, CM Wenig, R Leidl, S Pokhrel - BMC public health, 2012 - Springer
Background Little is known as to how health-related quality of life (HRQoL) when measured by generic instruments such as EQ-5D differ across smokers, ex-smokers and never …
We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality …
Background Social capital has lately received much attention in health research. The present study investigated whether two measures of subjective social capital were related to …