Inequality of opportunities in health and death: an investigation from birth to middle age in Great Britain
Autor: | Florence Jusot, Damien Bricard, Alain Trannoy, Sandy Tubeuf |
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Přispěvatelé: | Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé (IRDES), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire d’Economie et de Gestion des Organisations de Santé (LEDA-LEGOS), Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine (LEDa), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques (AMSE), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), CNRST, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales (UCL IRES), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Financial support of the Health Chair, a joint initiative by PSL, Universite Paris-Dauphine, ENSAE and MGEN under the aegis of the Fondation du Risque (FDR), Institut de la Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Paris Dauphine-PSL |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
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Male National Child Development Study Inequality longitudinal Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject Health Status Longevity Distribution (economics) 03 medical and health sciences Fathers Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine equality of opportunity 0502 economics and business Humans AcademicSubjects/MED00860 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics Occupations Child media_common childhood business.industry Technician 05 social sciences 1. No poverty self-assessed health General Medicine Middle Aged [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance Child development mortality Health equity Middle age United Kingdom Social Class Socioeconomic Factors 8. Economic growth Normative [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie health inequality Psychology business Demography Supplement |
Zdroj: | International Journal of Epidemiology International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020, 49 (5), pp.1739-1748. ⟨10.1093/ije/dyaa130⟩ International Journal of Epidemiology, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020, 49 (5), pp.1739-1748. ⟨10.1093/ije/dyaa130⟩ |
ISSN: | 0300-5771 1464-3685 |
Popis: | Objective We assess the existence of unfair inequalities in health and death using the normative framework of inequality of opportunities, from birth to middle age in Great Britain. Methods We use data from the 1958 National Child Development Study, which provides a unique opportunity to observe individual health from birth to the age of 54, including the occurrence of mortality. We measure health status combining self-assessed health and mortality. We compare and statistically test the differences between the cumulative distribution functions of health status at each age according to one childhood circumstance beyond people’s control: the father’s occupation. Results At all ages, individuals born to a ‘professional’, ‘senior manager or technician’ father report a better health status and have a lower mortality rate than individuals born to ‘skilled’, ‘partly skilled’ or ‘unskilled’ manual workers and individuals without a father at birth. The gap in the probability to report good health between individuals born into high social backgrounds compared with low, increases from 12 percentage points at age 23 to 26 at age 54. Health gaps are even more marked in health states at the bottom of the health distribution when mortality is combined with self-assessed health. Conclusions There is increasing inequality of opportunities in health over the lifespan in Great Britain. The tag of social background intensifies as individuals get older. Finally, there is added analytical value to combining mortality with self-assessed health when measuring health inequalities. |
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