other variables, like health variables, are inconclusive. Our objective in this paper is to analyse the health convergence … the explanatory variables of health convergence as well as the unobserved spatiotemporal extra-variability. Our results … indicate that, in terms of health, although there was a catching-up process between the EU-27 regions between 1995 and 2009 …

The European Union is currently facing a serious problem concerning the occurrence of significant health inequalities … economic and social cohesion and the reduction of health inequalities between the EU regions is an important element of this … process.This work is devoted to the study of the variations of health status (measured by life expectancy) across the EU …

other growth factors including health, institution, trade, and education. In this paper, I revisit these findings using a … convergence of health across countries and understand the driving force behind this convergence. To achieve this goal, I … between the unconditional and conditional convergence on health as the product of two cross-sectional slopes. The result …