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Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality in western Europe
Denny Vågerö,Robert Erikson +1 more
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Sweden and Norway had larger relative inequalities in health than most other countries for both measures; France fared badly for mortality but was average for morbidity.About:
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries
Johan P. Mackenbach,Irina Stirbu,Albert-Jan R. Roskam,Maartje M. Schaap,Gwenn Menvielle,Mall Leinsalu,Anton E. Kunst +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe and found that in almost all countries, the rates of death and poorer selfassessments of health were substantially higher in groups of lower socioeconomic status.
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Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)
TL;DR: This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research, with a description of what they intend to measure and how data are elicited and the advantages and limitation of the indicators.
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ADOLESCENT RESILIENCE: A Framework for Understanding Healthy Development in the Face of Risk
TL;DR: The authors discuss three models of resilience, the compensatory, protective, and challenge models, and describe how resilience differs from related concepts, and discuss implications that resilience research has for intervention and describe some resilience-based interventions.
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Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit all.
Paula Braveman,Catherine Cubbin,Susan Egerter,Sekai Chideya,Kristen S. Marchi,Marilyn Metzler,Samuel F. Posner +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence shows that conclusions about nonsocioeconomic causes of racial/ethnic differences in health may depend on the measure-eg, income, wealth, education, occupation, neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics, or past socioeconomic experiences used to "control for SES," suggesting that findings from studies that have measured limited aspects of SES should be reassessed.
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The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes:
Paula Braveman,Laura M. Gottlieb +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence has accumulated pointing to socioeconomic factors such as income, wealth, and education as the fundamental causes of a wide range of health outcomes, and plausible pathways and biological mechanisms that may explain their effects are reviewed.
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Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality
TL;DR: Unhealthy Societies as mentioned in this paper shows that social cohesion is crucial to the quality of life in the USA, Britain, Japan and Eastern Europe, and brings together evidence from the social and medical sciences.
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On the measurement of inequalities in health
TL;DR: It is suggested that only two methods--the slope index of inequality and the concentration index--are likely to present an accurate picture of socioeconomic inequalities in health.
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Measuring the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health: an overview of available measures illustrated with two examples from Europe.
TL;DR: Eight different classes of summary measures can be distinguished, and measures of "total impact" can be further subdivided on the basis of their underlying assumptions, to arrive at 12 types of summary measure.
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Equivalence scales, well‐being, inequality, and poverty: sensitivity estimates across ten countries using the luxembourg income study (lis) database
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the available equivalence scales and test the sensitivity of various income inequality and poverty measures to choice of equivalence scale using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database.
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Income distribution and life expectancy.
TL;DR: There is clear evidence of a strong relation between a societys income distribution and the average life expectancy of its population.