Recent studies have reported a widening in the relative mortality gap between the socioeconomic classes in several … industrialized western countries. The present paper aims to determine whether or not education-related differentials in mortality …, the USA and New Zealand. For the Austrian analysis the source of the data is based on a one year mortality follow up of …

health policy makers? By health inequalities we mainly refer to differences in morbidity and mortality between socio …-economic groups, i.e. differences in morbidity and mortality by education, occupation and income. The paper looks at the problem of …