Health and income: a meta-analysis to explore cross-country, gender and age differences.

Background: Evidence of an effect of income on self-reported poor health (SRPH) is widely available in the literature. We compare this effect across age, different countries and between men and women using meta-analysis. Studies that report on an effect of income lack a homogenous effect size.

Individual vulnerability and the nurturing state: the case of self-reported health and relative income.

This paper develops a method to model the effect of income on self-reported health at the individual level. The model is estimated using the meta-analytic data of 68 studies from 13 countries, and is used to test two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that income affects health at the individual level.

The health effects of education: a meta-analysis.

Background: There is an abundance of empirical evidence, mainly from the epidemiological and social science literature, on the relation between education and health. Until now a meta-analysis of the relation between education and health was not available. This article presents a meta-analysis of studies that use self- reported health as an outcome variable to quantify the effect of education on health.

Economic evaluation of spinal cord stimulation for chronic reflex sympathetic dystrophy.

Objective: To evaluate the economic aspects of treatment of chronic reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) with spinal cord stimulation (SCS), using outcomes and costs of care before and after the start of treatment.

Methods: Fifty-four patients with chronic RSD were randomized to receive either SCS together with physical therapy (SCS+PT; n = 36) or physical therapy alone (PT; n = 18). Twenty-four SCS+PT patients responded positively to trial stimulation and underwent SCS implantation.

The impact of chronic pain on life in the household.

To study what happens in a family where one member suffers from chronic pain, we quantitatively assessed the effect of chronic pain resulting from complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS) on 1) employment status, 2) time allocation, 3) additional domestic help, and 4) out-of-pocket expenses of Dutch patients (n = 50) and their spouses (n = 43). This study is the first to measure the effect of chronic pain on time allocation by means of a diary assessment technique. The results were compared with normative values for the Dutch population overall.