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overall health inequality according to the different normative principles. Our results suggest that, in practice, the … contributions of circumstances and efforts to explained health inequality. …
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in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality in France. It examines three alternative specifications of … issue at stake is how to treat the correlation between circumstances and effort. Using a representative French health survey … circumstances to inequalities in health ranges between 44.5% and up to 46.4% according to the scenario, whereas the contribution of …
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Among inequalities in health, those which are explained by circumstances during childhood or parents' characteristics … are recognized as inequalities of opportunities in health and are considered as the most unfair. Tackling health … Union healthy-ageing strategy. We use the 2004 Survey on Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe and examine the influence of …
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attainment on health status in a cohort of British people born in 1958. Using the longitudinal follow-up data at age 23, 33, 42 … and 46, we build a dynamic model to investigate the influence of each determinant on health and the mediating role of … education and lifestyles in the relationship between early-life conditions and later health. Direct and indirect effects of …
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In this paper, we apply a multidimensional decomposition of the Gini index to the active and retired populations in France. The multi-decomposition of an inequality measure allows us to put into perspective the role of social spending and taxation in reducing inequalities simultaneously among...
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-CSF categories were provided by IMS Health. Volumes were calculated in defined daily doses (DDD) and prices in Euros per DDD. In the …
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Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared … the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …
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This study uses aggregate panel data on 96 French départements for the period from 1982 to 2002 to investigate the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality, controlling for local area and time fixed effects. Consistent with research using data from other countries, we find...
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