Author : Ángel López Nicolás
Release : 2004
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Regional Differences in Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Differences in Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Spain write by Ángel López Nicolás. This book was released on 2004. Regional Differences in Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper reports an analysis of income related health inequalities at the Autonomous Community level in Spain using the self assessed health measure in the 2001 edition of the Encuesta Nacional de Salud. We use recently developed methods in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health within a regression framework, decompose the sources of inequality and explain the observed differences across regions. Pais Vasco, Navarra, and La Rioja are the regions with the highest levels of mean health and simultaneously enjoy the lowest degree of income related health inequality. By contrast, Murcia is the least favoured region in that its population report one of the lowest levels of mean health and suffers the greatest degree of income related health inequality. Other territories where income related health inequality is high relative to País Vasco include rich regions such as Madrid, Baleares and Catalonia. The main feature characterizing regions where income related health inequality is low is the absence of a positive gradient between income and health. In turn, the regions where income related health inequality is greater are characterized by a strong and significant positive gradient between health and income. Thus policies aimed at eliminating the gradient between health and income can potentially lead to greater reductions in socio-economic health inequalities than policies aimed at redistributing income.