Educational inequalities in mortality in four Eastern European countries: divergence in trends during the post-communist transition from 1990 to 2000

Leinsalu, Mall; Stirbu, Irina; Vågerö, Denny; Kalèdiené, Ramuné; Kovács, Katalin; Wojtyniak, Bogdan; Wróblewska, Wiktoria; Mackenbach, Johan P.; Kunst, Anton E.

doi:10.1093/ije/dyn248

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“…However, inequality fluctuates far more from year to year than mortality rates do, suggesting that short-term changes in inequality do not have immediate effects on mortality. (27,28). Absolute differences in mortality rates have decreased in some countries, usually when mortality has fallen among all SES groups, and the greatest absolute gains have been for the lower SES groups.…”

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The Health Effects of Income Inequality: Averages and Disparities

Truesdale¹,

Jencks

2016

Annu. Rev. Public Health

113

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Much research has investigated the association of income inequality with average life expectancy, usually finding negative correlations that are not very robust. A smaller body of work has investigated socioeconomic disparities in life expectancy, which have widened in many countries since 1980. These two lines of work should be seen as complementary because changes in average life expectancy are unlikely to affect all socioeconomic groups equally. Although most theories imply long and variable lags between changes in income inequality and changes in health, empirical evidence is confined largely to short-term effects. Rising income inequality can affect individuals in two ways. Direct effects change individuals' own income. Indirect effects change other people's income, which can then change a society's politics, customs, and ideals, altering the behavior even of those whose own income remains unchanged. Indirect effects can thus change both average health and the slope of the relationship between individual income and health.

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The Health Effects of Income Inequality: Averages and Disparities

Truesdale¹,

Jencks

2016

Annu. Rev. Public Health

113

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“…Nierówności edukacyjne w stanie zdrowia mieszkańców Polski w ostatniej dekadzie XX w. zostały zbadane i opisane w analizie porównawczej dla 4 krajów Europy Wschodniej -Polski, Estonii, Litwy i Węgier w latach 1990-2000 [19]. W badaniu tym zaobserwowano różne trendy dla krajów byłego Związku Radzieckiego i krajów Europy Centralnej.…”

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Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality due to all causes in the working age population of Poland in 2002 and 2011

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Maniecka-Bryła

2017

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“…Moreover, SES differences in mortality are generally larger in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries than in Western European countries, mainly due to the communist past and rapid social transitions since the early 1990s [17]. A few previous studies of SES differences in mortality that are based on CEE countries report gender-specific results [18,19], but no study has so far focused specifically on the gender patterns of SES differences in mortality. Therefore, the Kopp et al in the present issue offers a major methodological improvement of the research field as it aims at quantifying the gender differences in the association between SES and premature mortality.…”

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