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Research in this area encompasses both healthcare systems and individual health. Work on healthcare systems focuses on the increased use of market mechanisms within the NHS. We examine the responses of patients, GPs, and other healthcare workers to market incentives, and the impacts upon recorded NHS activity and hospital outcomes.
Work on health has included: cross country differences in life-expectancy; the socioeconomic-health gradient, health and wellbeing amongst the older population; the effects of intra-uterine health shocks on childhood development; and, the relationship between drug enforcement and hospital admissions. Search
Newhouse, S., Farrall, M., Wallace, C., Hoti, M., Burke, B., et al.
C. Grimmett, J. Wardle and Andrew Steptoe
This article assess health behaviours in cancer survivors in a population-based sample of older adults in the United Kingdom
H. Hamer, GJ. Molloy, Cesar d'Oliveira and Panos Demakakos
Anne McMunn, James Nazroo and Elizabeth Breeze
The objective of this study is to examine whether wealth gradients in the incidence of illness decline with age, and, if so, whether this decline is explained by differential mortality.
David Llewellyn and Fiona Matthews
Analyses incorporating large independent population-based samples and identical measures are needed to investigate recent trends in cognitive function.
Mauricio Avendano, Maria Glymour, James Banks and Johan Mackenbach
We compared the health of older US, English, and other European adults, stratified by wealth.
This chapter is part of a volume which addresses the relationship between health and economic status, including why health behaviours vary across populations and how socioeconomic measures correlate with health outcomes.
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 Research told policymakers that, despite greater expenditure on health care, Americans are less healthy than their English counterparts.
IFS evaluated the Pathways to Work programme. This work proved key to the policy debate about how to get disability benefit claimants in work.
This survey was among the first to use PDAs for data collection in rural Africa.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.
IFS research has contributed to consultation with governments in developing countries on the design of health and welfare programmes.
IFS researchers working in Malawi trained interviewers in the use of PDAs, helping to collect more complete and accurate information about people's lives.
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