This article explores the way in which the instrument for measuring health impacts the scope of social health inequalities by using structural equations with latent variables. A synthetic indicator of latent health is created from perceived health indicators, limitations of activity, chronic...

Background and objectives: Health selection into unemployment may be either direct or operate by reference to health-related behaviours rather than health per se (indirect selection). Panel data are desirable to investigate selection effects, and the two types of selection processes may be...

Afin de comprendre les disparités européennes de santé, il est nécessaire de disposer de sources d'information comparables. Notre étude a ainsi pour objet d'analyser la qualité méthodologique et de comparer le contenu des enquêtes comportant des outils de mesure de la santé et de...