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Impact of Socioeconomic Inequality on Children’s Health and Well-being
Cabieses, Baltica; Pickett, Kate E.; Wilkinson, Richard G. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013476360
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Quantifying Socioeconomic Inequality in Childhood Obesity
Laugwitz, Justus; Mitchell, Mark; Valdivieso Massa, Patricio - 2021
We use longitudinal data on 11,000 UK-born children to examine the relationship between parental weight and income and … children’s overweight across childhood. We find that children are three times as likely to be overweight or obese at 14 if they … have an obese parent. Irrespective of their parents’ weight, children in the poorest 20% of families are twice as likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242447
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Socioeconomic inequalities in subjective well-being among the 50+ : contributions of income and health
Weaver, France; Freitas, Judite Antonieta Gonçalves de; … - 2015
income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289080
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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia
Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016
Exploiting the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper studies the transition of socioeconomic related disparity of excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471521
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Socioeconomic status and health : a new approach to the measurement of bivariate inequality
Erreygers, Guido; Kessels, Roselinde - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413351
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A decomposition analysis for socioeconomic inequalities in health status associated with the COVID-19 diagnosis and related symptoms during Brazil's first wave of infections
França, Natália Cecília de; Lima Campêlo, Guaracyane; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 251-264
the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … analysis to verify the factors that most influence the inequalities in the specified health variables. We find a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162294
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Non-compensatory aggregation method to measure social and material deprivation in an urban area : relationship with premature mortality
Bruzzi, Carolina; Ivaldi, Enrico; Landi, Stefano - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 21 (2020) 3, pp. 381-396
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221996
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Measuring inequality in the joint distribution of socioeconomic status and health
Kobus, Martyna; Kurek, Radosław - In: Economics letters 226 (2023), pp. 1-6
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313326
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Is socioeconomic inequality in postnatal depression an early-life root of disadvantage for children?
Ride, Jemimah - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 20 (2019) 7, pp. 1013-1027
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220972