Income inequality, life expectancy and cause-specific mortality in 43 European countries, 1987-2008: a fixed effects study.

ABSTRACT: Whether income inequality is related to population health is still open to debate. We aimed to critically assess the relationship between income inequality and mortality in 43 European countries using comparable data between 1987 and 2008, controlling for time-invariant and time-variant country-level confounding factors. Annual data on income inequality, expressed as Gini index based on net household income, were extracted from the Standardizing the World Income Inequality Database. Data on life expectancy at birth and age-standardized mortality by cause of death were obtained from the Human Lifetable Database and the World Health Organization European Health for All Database. Data on infant mortality were obtained from the United Nations World Population Prospects Database. The relationsh

SUBMITTER: Hu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4579249 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature