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Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens
Reducing inequality is one of the current challenges that most societies are facing. Our aim was to analyze the evolution of inequalities in self-assessed health among older Europeans in a time period spanning the 2008 economic crisis and the COVID-19 health crisis. We used data from Waves 2, 4 and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9265733/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805469 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137812 |
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author | González Rodríguez, Irene Pascual Sáez, Marta Cantarero Prieto, David |
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description | Reducing inequality is one of the current challenges that most societies are facing. Our aim was to analyze the evolution of inequalities in self-assessed health among older Europeans in a time period spanning the 2008 economic crisis and the COVID-19 health crisis. We used data from Waves 2, 4 and 8 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We used inequality indices that accept ordinal variables. Our empirical results suggest that average inequality declines over time. Gender significantly influences the results. Some of the countries with the highest level of inequality are Denmark and Sweden, and some with the lowest are Estonia and the Netherlands. Our results may be of interest for the development of public policies to reduce inequalities. Special attention should be paid to vulnerable groups, such as the elderly. |
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spelling | pubmed-92657332022-07-09 Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens González Rodríguez, Irene Pascual Sáez, Marta Cantarero Prieto, David Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Reducing inequality is one of the current challenges that most societies are facing. Our aim was to analyze the evolution of inequalities in self-assessed health among older Europeans in a time period spanning the 2008 economic crisis and the COVID-19 health crisis. We used data from Waves 2, 4 and 8 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We used inequality indices that accept ordinal variables. Our empirical results suggest that average inequality declines over time. Gender significantly influences the results. Some of the countries with the highest level of inequality are Denmark and Sweden, and some with the lowest are Estonia and the Netherlands. Our results may be of interest for the development of public policies to reduce inequalities. Special attention should be paid to vulnerable groups, such as the elderly. MDPI 2022-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9265733/ /pubmed/35805469 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137812 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article González Rodríguez, Irene Pascual Sáez, Marta Cantarero Prieto, David Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens |
title | Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens |
title_full | Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens |
title_fullStr | Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens |
title_full_unstemmed | Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens |
title_short | Have Health Inequalities Increased during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Recent Years for Older European Union Citizens |
title_sort | have health inequalities increased during the covid-19 pandemic? evidence from recent years for older european union citizens |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9265733/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805469 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137812 |
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