This analysis aims to get a step further in the understanding of the determining factors of social health inequalities, and to explore particularly the role played by parents’ social status and their vital status or age at death on the social health inequalities in adulthood among European...

This paper aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

Among inequalities in health, those which are explained by circumstances during childhood or parents' characteristics are recognized as inequalities of opportunities in health and are considered as the most unfair. Tackling health inequalities in later life and improving the underlying...

Les recherches les plus pointues sont formelles : les inégalités sociales de santé ont plutôt tendance à s’aggraver en Europe. Ces études pointent la grande diversité des situations d’un pays à l’autre. Trois pays – Royaume-Uni, Pays-Bas et Suède – ont véritablement mis en...

La France, comme les autres pays européens, affiche de larges inégalités sociales face à la mort et en matière de santé. Les plus instruits, les catégories de professions les plus qualifiées et les ménages les plus aisés bénéficient d’une espérance de vie plus longue et se...

Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe.

Purpose: This paper aims to quantify inequalities of opportunities in health in Europe and to assess whether the way the correlation between effort towards health and circumstances empirically matters for the magnitude of inequalities of opportunities. Methodology: This paper considers two...