Welfare states, the Great Recession and health: Trends in educational inequalities in self-reported health in 26 European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although socioeconomic inequalities in health have long been observed in Europe, few studies have analysed their recent patterning. In this paper, we examined how educational inequalities in self-reported health have evolved in different European countries and welfare state regimes over the last decade, which was troubled by the Great Recession.

Methods

We used cross-sectional data from the EU-SILC survey for adults from 26 European countries, from 2005 to 2014 (n = 3,030,595). We first calculated education-related absolute (SII) and relative (RII) inequalities in poor self-reported health by country-year, adjusting for age, sex, and EU-SILC survey weights. We then regressed the year- and country-specific RII and SII on a yearly time trend, globally and by welfare

SUBMITTER: Leao T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5825059 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature