More needs to be known about the origins of health inequalities and their measurement. This paper contributes by examining how the existence of income-related inequalities in unhealthy behaviours and more specifically, obesity (as a proxy for excessive food intake), alcohol intake and smoking...

The persistence of inequalities in health is a major policy concern in England, which was addressed by the new Labour government in 1997 through prioritising the curtailment of health inequalities as a policy goal. However, whether specific interventions have managed to attain their goals is a...

This paper investigates the persistence in health limitations for individuals within the member states of the European Union. We use the full 8 waves of data available in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to explore the relative contributions of state dependence, unobserved...

This paper explores reporting bias and heterogeneity in the measure of self-assessed health (SAH) used in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). The ninth wave of the BHPS includes the SF-36 general health questionnaire, which incorporates a different wording to the self-assessed health...

Health inequalities across socioeconomic groups are a health and public policy concern in all countries. There exist robust methodological tools from the epidemiological and economics disciplines to measure inequalities in health and there is a substantial amount of evidence on the level of...

This paper shows an analysis of inequalities in suffering health limitations in daily activity by using the EU-SILC longitudinal data for the waves 2005 to 2007 in 20 European Member States for which data was available. Inequalities in health limitations were measured using the concentration...