This paper proposes a method to quantify the contribution of inequalities of opportunities and inequalities due to differences in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality. It examines three alternative specifications of legitimate and illegitimate inequalities drawing on Roemer,...

This analysis aims to understand the role and the extent of childhood circumstances in current inequality in health among adulthood. Health inequalities have extensively been explained by differences in living and working conditions, access or lifestyle, this article gets a step further and...

Within Europe, and similarly the rest of the developed world, the increase in life expectancy over the last few decades and associated incremental health problems is raising the importance of informal care. A decrease in births, greater geographical distances between family members and the...

There is a need to understand the practicality, validity and reliability of using utility measures with children and adolescents. We designed a pilot study in order to help guide the selection of an appropriate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire for adolescents to be used in...

This article analyses the role played by childhood circumstances, especially social and family background in explaining health status in adulthood. The influence of social and health characteristics is also considered, whereby characteristics in a generation impacts the health status in the...

Les descendants des cadres dirigeants et professions intellectuelles ont-ils une meilleure santé que les descendants d’ouvriers ? Est-ce que la longévité des parents infl uence l’état de santé à l’âge adulte ? Ces deux questions interrogent l’existence d’inégalités des chances...

This article analyses the role played by childhood circumstances, especially social and family background in explaining health status among older adults. We explore the hypothesis of an intergenerational transmission of health inequalities using the French part of SHARE. As the impact of both...

Cette recherche explore l’impact de l’instrument de mesure de l’état de santé, sur l’ampleur des inégalités sociales de santé à l’aide d’un modèle d’équations structurelles à variable latente. Nous créons un indicateur synthétique de santé latente à partir de quatre...

This paper develops an innovative method of constructing a concrete measure of health by taking into account individual health information. Using individual survey data from the 2002 IRDES Health and Health Insurance Survey, we propose a measurement of health based on the number of diseases and...