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 inequalities in later life and improving the underlying...

This paper aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

This analysis aims to get a step further in the understanding of the determining factors of social health inequalities, and to explore particularly the role played by parents’ social status and their vital status or age at death on the social health inequalities in adulthood among European...