Socioeconomic inequality in non-communicable diseases in Europe between 2004 and 2015: evidence from the SHARE survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The scope of this work was to investigate socioeconomic inequalities among European adults aged 50 or older in chronic diseases and behavioural risk factors for these diseases, namely, smoking habits, obesity and physical inactivity, between 2004 and 2015.

Methods

Data for this study were drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) in Europe, which is a panel database of microdata on health, socioeconomic status and social and family networks of people aged 50 years or older, covering most of the European Union. The predicted number of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was used to estimate the concentration index and to find the contributions of determinants to socioeconomic inequalities in chronic diseases.

Results

The inequality disfavou

SUBMITTER: Bono F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345203 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature