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Why a positive link between age and income-related health inequality?
Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2010
SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to … direction that the age increase in health inequality is primarily caused by a reversed causality going from health to annual … the age variation in health inequality seem to have increased over time, and during the 1980th the age variation was …
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Explaining socioeconomic inequalities in drug utilization for Sweden 2005-2006: Evidence from linked survey and register data
Nordin, Martin; Dackehag, Margareta; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2011
This study uses the Swedish register of prescribed drugs, merged with the Survey of Living Conditions (the ULF), to analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in individual drug utilization. Whereas the education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208582
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Inequalities in Labour Market Consequences of Common Mental Disorders
Jarl, Johan; Linder, Anna; Busch, Hillevi; Nyberg, Anja; … - 2018
The burden of mental disorders continues to grow and is now a leading cause of disability worldwide. The prevalence of mental disorders is unequal between population subgroups, and these disorders are associated with unfavourable consequences in social and economic conditions, health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208815
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Estimating the Causal Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Income-Related Mortality
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Heckley, Gawain; Lissdaniels, Johannes - 2020
To-date the macroeconomic conditions-mortality literature on income-related inequality in mortality has relied on … highlight the importance of: i) measurement of relative versus absolute inequality; ii) measurement of inequality by population …-level statistics of inequality (concentration indices) versus subgroup analysis; iii) measurement of short versus long-term income. We …
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