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Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden

BACKGROUND: Health inequality and its social determinants are well-studied, but the determinants of inequality of alcohol consumption are less well-investigated. METHODS: The total differential approach of decomposition of changes in the concentration index of the probability of participation in alc...

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Autores principales: Combes, Jean-Baptiste, Gerdtham, Ulf-Göran, Jarl, Johan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21306654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-10-10
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author Combes, Jean-Baptiste
Gerdtham, Ulf-Göran
Jarl, Johan
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description BACKGROUND: Health inequality and its social determinants are well-studied, but the determinants of inequality of alcohol consumption are less well-investigated. METHODS: The total differential approach of decomposition of changes in the concentration index of the probability of participation in alcohol consumption was applied to 8-year longitudinal data for Swedish women aged 28-76 in 1988/89. RESULTS: Alcohol consumption showed a pro-rich inequality, with income being a strong contributor. Overall participation remained fairly constant, but the inequality decreased over time as abstinence became less common among the poor and more common among the rich. This was mainly due to changes in the relative weights of certain population groups, such as a decrease in the proportional size of the oldest cohorts. CONCLUSIONS: Inequality in participation in alcohol consumption is pro-rich in Sweden. This inequality has tended to decrease over time, due to changes in population composition rather than to policy intervention.
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spelling pubmed-30424062011-02-25 Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden Combes, Jean-Baptiste Gerdtham, Ulf-Göran Jarl, Johan Int J Equity Health Research BACKGROUND: Health inequality and its social determinants are well-studied, but the determinants of inequality of alcohol consumption are less well-investigated. METHODS: The total differential approach of decomposition of changes in the concentration index of the probability of participation in alcohol consumption was applied to 8-year longitudinal data for Swedish women aged 28-76 in 1988/89. RESULTS: Alcohol consumption showed a pro-rich inequality, with income being a strong contributor. Overall participation remained fairly constant, but the inequality decreased over time as abstinence became less common among the poor and more common among the rich. This was mainly due to changes in the relative weights of certain population groups, such as a decrease in the proportional size of the oldest cohorts. CONCLUSIONS: Inequality in participation in alcohol consumption is pro-rich in Sweden. This inequality has tended to decrease over time, due to changes in population composition rather than to policy intervention. BioMed Central 2011-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3042406/ /pubmed/21306654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-10-10 Text en Copyright ©2011 Combes et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Combes, Jean-Baptiste
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Jarl, Johan
Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden
title Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden
title_full Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden
title_fullStr Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden
title_full_unstemmed Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden
title_short Equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from Sweden
title_sort equalisation of alcohol participation among socioeconomic groups over time: an analysis based on the total differential approach and longitudinal data from sweden
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3042406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21306654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-10-10
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