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Democratization and life expectancy in Europe, 1960–2008

Mackenbach, Johan P.; Hu, Yannan; Looman, Caspar W.N. - In: Social Science & Medicine 93 (2013) C, pp. 166-175

Over the past five decades, two successive waves of political reform have brought democracy to, first, Spain, Portugal and Greece, and, more recently, Central and Eastern European countries. We assessed whether democratization was associated with improvements in population health, as indicated...

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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries

Jusot, Florence; Kunst, Anton E.; Leinsalu, Mall; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …

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Assessing the potential impact of increased participation in higher education on mortality: Evidence from 21 European populations

Kulhánová, Ivana; Hoffmann, Rasmus; Judge, Ken; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 117 (2014) C, pp. 142-149

population differs across Europe, and can be substantial. Further investments in education may have important positive side …

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Educational differences in disability-free life expectancy: a comparative study of long-standing activity limitation in eight European countries

Mäki, Netta; Martikainen, Pekka; Eikemo, Terje; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 94 (2013) C, pp. 1-8

the existing comparisons focus on Western Europe and the United States, often relying on older data. To address these … deficiencies, we estimated educational differences in disability-free life expectancy for eight countries from all parts of Europe … significantly between countries. The smallest and largest differences appear to be in Southern Europe and in Eastern and Northern …

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Variations in the relation between education and cause-specific mortality in 19 European populations: A test of the “fundamental causes” theory of social inequalities in health

Mackenbach, Johan P.; Kulhánová, Ivana; Bopp, Matthias; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 51-62

Link and Phelan have proposed to explain the persistence of health inequalities from the fact that socioeconomic status is a “fundamental cause” which embodies an array of resources that can be used to avoid disease risks no matter what mechanisms are relevant at any given time. To test this...

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The persistence of health inequalities in modern welfare states: The explanation of a paradox

Mackenbach, Johan P. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 4, pp. 761-769

Europe, is one of the great disappointments of public health. Health inequalities have not only persisted while welfare …

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