Patrick Deboosere

TL;DR: Research needs to be broadened to include older populations, other diseases, and populations from different parts of Europe to reduce exposure to cardiovascular risk factors in low-educational groups.

TL;DR: Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among older men and women were found to persist in each country, sometimes of similar magnitude as those among the middle aged, and in some of the populations, relative inequalities among older women were as large as thoseamong middle aged women.

TL;DR: England/Wales, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Belgium are the farthest advanced in terms of the progression of the smoking epidemic: these populations have consistently higher lung cancer mortality rates among the less educated in all age-groups in men, including the oldest men, and in all ages in women up to those aged 60-69 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected and harmonised data on mortality by educational level among men and women aged 30-74 years in all countries with available data: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England and Wales, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania and Estonia.

TL;DR: Socioeconomic disparities in IHD mortality were larger in northern than in southern European populations during the 1990s, which partly reflects the pattern of socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular risk factors in Europe.