Variations between world regions in individual health: A multilevel analysis of the role of socio-economic factors

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 284-289

  Witvliet, Margot I ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a   Stronks, Karien ^a   Arah, Onyebuchi A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; USSR; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ASIA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AMERICA; USSR; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84859797527     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr001     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Houweling TA, Kunst AE, Looman CW, Machenbach JP. Determinants of under-5 mortality among the poor and the rich: a cross-national analysis of 43 developing countries. Int J Epidemiol 2005;34:1257-65. (Pubitemid 41819532)
2. Schell CO, Reilly M, Rosling H, et al. Socioeconomic determinants of infant mortality: a worldwide study of 152 low-, middle-, and high-income countries. Scand J Public Health 2007;35:288-97. (Pubitemid 47386433)
3. Hales S, Howden-Chapman P, Salmond C, et al. National infant mortality rates in relation to gross national product and distribution of income. Lancet 1999;354:2047.
4. Navarro V, Shi L. The political context of social inequalities and health. Soc Sci Med 2001;52:481-91.
5. Kunst AE, Bos V, Lahelma E, et al. Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 10 European countries. Int J Epidemiol 2005;34:295-305. (Pubitemid 40645315)
6. Chung H, Muntaner C. Welfare state matters: a typological multilevel analysis of wealthy countries. Health Policy 2007;80:328-39. (Pubitemid 44920273)
7. Beckfield J, Krieger N. Epi 1 demos 1 cracy: linking political systems and priorities to the magnitude of health inequities - evidence, gaps, and a research agenda. Epidemiol Rev 2009;31:152-77.
8. Bambra C. Going beyond the three worlds of welfare capitalism: regime theory and public health research. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007;61:1098-102. (Pubitemid 350207368)
9. Jen M, Jones K, Johnston R. Global variations in health: evaluating Wilkinson's income inequality using the World Values Survey. Soc Sci Med 2009;68:643-53.
10. Subramanian SV, Huijts T, Avendano M. Self-reported health assessments in the 2002 World Health Survey: how do they correlate with education? Bull World Health Organ 2010;88:131-8.
11. World Health Organization. World Health Survey. Available at: http://who.int/healthinfo/survey/en/index.html (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
12. United Nations Environment Programme. Geo Regions. Available at: http://www.unep.org/GEO/GEO-Regions/ (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
13. Preston SH. The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Stud 1975;29:231-48.
14. Pritchett L, Summers LH. Wealthier is healthier. J Human Resour 1996;31:841-68.
15. Caldwell JC. Routes to low mortality in poor countries. Popul Dev Rev 1986;12:171-220.
16. Cleland JG, van Ginneken JK. Maternal education and child survival in developing countries: the search for pathways of influence. Soc Sci Med 1988;27:1357-68. (Pubitemid 19000644)
17. WHO Statistical Information System. World Health Organization. Available at: http://apps.who.int/whosis/data/Search.jsp (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
18. UN Common Database. United Nations Statistics Division. Available at: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=CDB&f=srID%3a29922 (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
19. Ed Stats Data Query. The World Bank Group. Available at: http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/DDPQQ/member.do?method=getMembers&userid= 1&queryId=189 (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
20. The World Fact Book. Central Intelligence Agency. Available at: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/region/region-eur. html (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
21. Indicators on Literacy. United Nations Statistics Division. Available at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/literacy.htm (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
22. Ahmad OB, Boschi-Pinto C, Lopez AD, et al. Age standardization of rates: a new WHO standard. World Health Organization, 2001. Available at: www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/paper31.pdf (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
23. Üstün BT, Chatterji S, Villanueva M, et al. WHO Multi-country Survey Study on Health and Responsiveness 2000-2001. World Health Organization; 30 November 2001. Available at: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper31.pdf (1 February 2009, date last accessed).
24. Idler E, Kasl S. Health perceptions and survival: do global evaluations of health status really predict mortality? J Gerontol 1991;46:S55-65.
25. Jylha M. What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model. Soc Sci Med 2009;69:207-16.
26. Rajaratnam JK, Marcus JR, Levin-Rector A, et al. Worldwide mortality in men and women aged 15-59 years from 1970 to 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet 2010;375:1704-20.
27. Arah OA. On the relationship between individual and population health. Med Health Care Philos 2009;12:235-44.
28. Peltzer K. Health psychology in Africa South of the Sahara. In: Maes S, Leventhal H, Johnston M, editors. International review of health psychology, Vol. 1. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1992: 191-210.
29. Austad SN. Why women live longer than men: sex differences in longevity. Gend Med 2006;3:79-92. (Pubitemid 44057818)
30. Johansson S. Longevity in women. Cardiovasc Clin 1989;19:3-16. (Pubitemid 19172234)
31. Verbrugge L. The Twain Meet: empirical explanations of sex differences in health and mortality. J Health Soc Behav 1989;30:282-304. (Pubitemid 19238456)
32. Over M, Ellis R, Huber J, Solon O. The consequence of adult ill-health. In: Feachem R, Kjellstrom T, Murray C, et al, editors. The health of adults in the developing world, Vol. 34. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, ch. 4.
33. Navarro V, Muntaner C, Borrell C, et al. Politics and health outcomes. Lancet 2006;368:1033-7. (Pubitemid 44353669)
34. Kunst AE. Socioeconomic inequalities in health in Central and Eastern Europe: synthesis of results of eight new studies. Int J Public Health 2009;54:197-200.
35. Leinsalu M, Stirbu I, Vågerö D, et al. Educational inequalities in mortality in four Eastern European countries: divergence in trends during the post-communist transition from 1990 to 2000. Int J Epidemiol 2009;38:512-25.
36. Navarro V, Borrell C, Benach J, et al. The importance of the political and the social in explaining mortality differentials among the countries of the OECD, 1950-1998. Int J Health Serv 2003;33:419-94. (Pubitemid 37259650)
37. Gough I. Globalization and regional welfare regimes: the East Asian case. Global Soc Policy 2001;1:163-89.
38. Wong C, Chau KK, Wong TK. Neither welfare state nor welfare society: the case of Hong Kong. Soc Policy Society 2002;1:293-301.
39. Tempany M. What research tells us about the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of Sudanese refugees: a literature review. Transcult Psychiatry 2009;46:300-15.
40. Bailis D, Segall A, Chipperfield J. Two views of self-rated general health status. Soc Sci Med 2003;56:203-17. (Pubitemid 35430335)