Understanding health inequalities in Wales using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method

ABSTRACT:

Background

Throughout Wales and the world, health inequality remains a problem that is interconnected with a wider and complex social, economic and environmental dynamic. Subsequently, action to tackle inequality in health needs to take place at a structural level, acknowledging the constraints affecting an individual's (or community's) capability and opportunity to enable change. While the ‘social determinants of health' is an established concept, fully understanding the composition of the health gap is dependent on capturing the relative contributions of a myriad of social, economic and environmental factors within a quantitative analysis.

Method

The decomposition analysis sought to explain the differences in the prevalence of these outcomes in groups stratified by thei

SUBMITTER: Allen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9797964 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature