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Socioeconomic inequalities in health

, 2019
The aim of this thesis is to advance the understanding of how the relationship between health and socioeconomic status changes over the life-course and over time. Three different studies which address several important aspects of the socioeconomic inequalities in health are presented.
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Income Inequality Rankings for Different Equivalence Scales and Population Health [PDF]

This paper is divided in two parts. The first one is dedicated to analyse the inequality of the income distribution in Spain during the convergence process to the European Monetary Union.
José María Sarabia, Marta Pascual, David Cantarero   +2 more
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Does Inequality Harm Income Mobility and Growth? An Assessment of the Growth Impact of Income and Education Inequality in Paraguay 1992: 2002 [PDF]

Poverty reduction is entirely determined by the growth rate of population?s mean per capita income1 and by the change in the distribution of income.
Otter, Thomas
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Essays on Socioeconomic Inequality

, 2022
In this thesis I study socioeconomic inequalities with a focus on health. In the first two chapters I study the causes of these inequalities: first looking at geographic inequalities in health behavior, and then looking at historical inequalities in health behavior by different socioeconomic groups.
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The Dynamics of Income-related Health Inequality among US Children [PDF]

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the income-related health mobility index recently introduced byAllanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 waves of the
Kajal Lahiri, Jingya Song, Pinka Chatterji   +2 more
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Poverty, Income Inequality and Health [PDF]

The purpose of this report is to consider the legitimacy of the assumption that communities or societies with more unequal income distributions have poorer health outcomes.
Iain Paterson, Ken Judge
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Scotland's Census : Understanding Changes in Health and Socioeconomic Inequality since 2011 [PDF]

This publication compares results from the 2022 and 2011 censuses, looking at how key health and socioeconomic indicators changed across the decade, especially for people living in the most deprived areas.
Catalano, Allison, Jack, David
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Causes of inequality in health : who are you? where do you live? or who your parents were? [PDF]

Data from the British National Child Development Study show that, among 33-year-olds, ill health (as measured by cardinalized responses to a question on self-assessed health) is concentrated among the worse off.
Paci, Pierella, Joshi, Heather, Wagstaf, Adam   +2 more
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Inequality and Suicide Mortality: A Cross-Country Study [PDF]

This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries for the period 1947-2001 allows us to control for the effect of unobserved factors that may have an impact on suicide rates.
Antonio Rodriguez
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Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms [PDF]

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We focus on four dimensions of socioeconomic status -- education, financial resources, rank, and race and ethnicity -- paying particular ...
Adriana Lleras-Muney, David M. Cutler, Tom Vogl   +2 more
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