The purpose of this study is to analyse the determinants of life expectancy as proxy for health status of the OECD … countries' population. A production function of health is used to explain expectancy life at birth for total and ageing … population and according to gender. Socio-economic factors, health resources and lifestyles are defined as the main determinants …

other variables, like health variables, are inconclusive. Our objective in this paper is to analyse the health convergence … the explanatory variables of health convergence as well as the unobserved spatiotemporal extra-variability. Our results … indicate that, in terms of health, although there was a catching-up process between the EU-27 regions between 1995 and 2009 …