🔄 Bidirectional causality: Healthcare efficiency increases health inequalities, and health inequalities increase inefficiency.

📈 Addressing health inequalities first may enhance system efficiency.

🏥 Read the study in Social Science & Medicine.

“Bread and Social Justice: Measurement of Social Welfare and Inequality Using Anthropometrics”.
The paper explores how to measure health achievement and inequality when well-being follows an inverted-U pattern.
Read the study in the Review of Income and Wealth.

The AHEAD network seeks to identify, in a multidisciplinary manner, the interactions between health and environmental issues and to integrate sustainable development goals into public policies in developing countries.

The AHEAD Symposiums are the premiere Euro-Mediterranean regional event where the community of researchers and scholars from both developed and developing countries meet to present, elaborate and discuses their research works. 

The AHEAD Network unites researchers in various research disciplines (economics, epidemiology, public health, sociology of health, ecology and environment) from both developed and developing countries on current topics relating to health,  environment and development.