Income or living standard and health in Germany: different ways of measurement of relative poverty with regard to self-rated health

Timo-Kolja Pfoertner (), Hans-Juergen Andress and Christian Janssen

International Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 56, issue 4, 373-384

Abstract: Our results challenge conventional measurements of the relationship between poverty and health that probably has been underestimated by income measures so far. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2011

Keywords: Poverty; Subjective health; Poverty measures; Living standard; Income; Deprivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-010-0154-3

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