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Socioeconomic inequality in health in older adults in Brazil

Dialogues in Health, 2022
Objective This study analyzed socioeconomic inequality in self-rated health for older adults (aged fifty or over) in Brazil. Methods Data from the 2015-2016 Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil).
R. Pérez, C. O. Tejada, L. Triaca, A. Bertoldi, A. M. Aristides dos Santos   +4 more
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Socioeconomic inequality of long-term care for older people with and without dementia in England

Ageing & Society, 2022
Ensuring distributive fairness in the long-term care sector is vitally important in the context of global population ageing and rising care needs. This study, part of the DETERMIND (DETERMinants of quality of life, care and costs, and consequences of ...
Bo Hu, Sanna Read, R. Wittenberg, N. Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues, Sube Banerjee, J. Dixon, L. Robinson, A. Rehill, José-Luis Fernández   +9 more
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Does Schooling Decrease Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Achievement? A Differential Exposure Approach

American Sociological Review, 2021
Does schooling affect socioeconomic inequality in educational achievement? Earlier studies based on seasonal comparisons suggest schooling can equalize social gaps in learning.
Giampiero Passaretta, J. Skopek
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Decomposing socioeconomic health inequalities [PDF]

International Journal of Public Health, 2010
This Hints & Kinks paper describes a technique enabling quantification of the contributions of determinants to socioeconomic inequality in health. This technique, differing from an analysis investigating the determinants of average health levels, has received considerable attention from health economists (van Doorslaer and Gerdtham 2003; van Doorslaer ...
Spybroeck, N., Konings, P., Lynch, J., Harper, S., Berkvens, D., Lorant, V., Geckova, A., Hosseinpoor, A.   +7 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in cancer in the Nordic countries. A systematic review

Acta oncologica, 2022
Background Despite structural and cultural similarities across the Nordic countries, differences in cancer survival remain. With a focus on similarities and differences between the Nordic countries, we investigated the association between socioeconomic ...
Gunn Ammitzbøll, A. K. G. Levinsen, T. Kjær, F. Ebbestad, T. Horsbøl, L. Saltbæk, S. Badre-Esfahani, A. Joensen, Eva Kjeldsted, Maja Halgren Olsen, S. Dalton   +10 more
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Trajectories of socioeconomic inequality in early child development: a cohort analysis

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Addressing socioeconomic inequalities in early child development (ECD) is key to reducing the intergenerational transmission of health inequalities.
T. Houweling, J. Oude Groeniger, P. Jansen, P. V. van Lier, Nil Horoz, M. Buil, F. V. van Lenthe   +6 more
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The healthcare inequality among middle-aged and older adults in China: a comparative analysis between the full samples and the homogeneous population

Health Economics Review, 2022
Background In the Chinese population, the middle-aged and older adults are the two main segments that utilize a large portion of healthcare. With the fast growth of the two segments, the demands of healthcare services increases significantly.
Liping Fu, Ya’nan Fang, Yongqing Dong
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Perceived inequality in society may not motivate increased food intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Greater levels of socioeconomic inequality across societies have been associated with higher rates of obesity and cardiometabolic disease. While these relationships could be attributed to poorer quality of health services and lower access to ...
Bobby K. Cheon, Xenia Low, Darren Jeffian Wijaya, Albert Lee   +3 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in Europe

Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021
Abstract Empirical evidence on Europe integration indicates a process of convergence between countries, but not within regions. We aim to assess the relationship between spatial and social inequalities in the EU regions for the 2000–2016 period.
Sanchez Carrera Edgar Javier, Rombaldoni Rosalba, Pozzi Riccardo   +2 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in the quality of life of older Europeans in different welfare regimes [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Whether socioeconomic inequalities in health and well-being persist into old age and are narrower in more generous welfare states is debated.
Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal, Pell, Jill, Mitchell, Richard, Niedzwiedz, Claire L, Pell, Jill P, Niedzwiedz, Claire L.   +5 more
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