mortality rates as indicators for the health status and analyse the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the … whole population, for (ii) females, for (iii) males and for (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence … Concordance) are used to test for absolute and conditional beta-convergence in mortality. We find mixed results for the inequality …

disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …

mortality levels among countries and are particularly sensitive when broken down by population subgroups. For instance, despite … on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and mortality data from the Eurostat database. We then quantify the magnitude … of Portugal, indicating favorable health and mortality conditions in Poland. However, Poland's greater relative number of …