health characteristics in determining health care utilisation. These models allow for a fully nonparametric relationship … between socioeconomic status, health care need and care utilisation. The only parametric restriction imposed is that multiple … socioeconomic and health indicators can be aggregated into two distinct indices that measure the broader concepts of socioeconomic …

opportunity in child health inequality. The latter is decomposed into within opportunity inequality and the between opportunity … total health inequality experienced a decrease between 1998 and 2013 from 0.65 to 0.26 in 15 years unlike the inequality of … influence child health. Considering the results, the increase in the level of inequality of health opportunity would come more …

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 …

This paper was prepared as Work Package IV of the AHEAD project – Ageing, Health Status and the Determinants of Health … this work package was to build up a picture of the movements in health status of the elderly population of each country in … the EU by age and sex. Residential care and death were considered as well as states of health. Due to the scarcity of data …