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Which inequalities in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and nations are unfair? And what priority should health policy attach to narrowing them? These essays by philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and physicians attempt to determine how health inequalities should be conceptualized, measured, ranked, and evaluated.

Health status indicators. --- Medical statistics. --- Health --- Health statistics --- Medicine --- Statistics --- Health indicators --- Health status indexes --- Health status indicators --- Indexes, Health status --- Indicators, Health status --- Health surveys --- Medical statistics --- Public health --- Quality of life --- Social indicators --- Statistical methods --- Methodology --- Health Status Disparities --- Bioethical Issues --- Global Health --- Health Care Disparities --- Socioeconomic Factors

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This book presents recent findings about the consequences and policy implications of economic stress for human capital development and family well-being in Asia. The scope of the chapters goes beyond the impact of current financial crisis to include the effect of economic deprivation families in Asia experience as a result of job loss, low-wage employment, and catastrophic natural calamities. The studies show how macro-level economic stress can filter down through households to affect individuals’ economic and socio-psychological well-being. The chapters reveal a wide spectrum of economic stresses experienced by families in Asia that is linked to poor human capital development, emotional distress, health problems, changing fertility patterns, more frequent geographic movement, and less supportive parenting behavior. The elderly, women, children, low-skilled workers are particularly vulnerable. The economic shocks in the past several decades have exposed the vulnerability of the family institution and the weaknesses in this region’s social protection system that can lead to detrimental long-term effects on human capital development. This book is relevant for researchers and students in fields such as Family Studies, Globalization, Development, Social Problems, Social Stratification, Social Inequalities, Poverty and Welfare, Education, and Social Policies.

Economic development -- Social aspects. --- Social capital (Sociology). --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- Families --- Family life surveys --- Financial crises --- Health status indicators --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Asia --- Social policy. --- Health indicators --- Health status indexes --- Indexes, Health status --- Indicators, Health status --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social conditions --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Social sciences. --- Public health. --- Medical research. --- Quality of life. --- Social Sciences. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Social Policy. --- Public Health. --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Biomedical research --- Medical research --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Health surveys --- Medical statistics --- Public health --- Quality of life --- Social indicators --- Crises --- Social surveys --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Methodology --- Quality of Life --- Research.