Open AccessHave regional inequalities in life expectancy widened within the European Union between 1991 and 2008?
Author(s) -
Elizabeth Richardson,
Jamie Pearce,
Richard Mitchell,
Niamh Shortt,
Helena Tunstall
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1464-360X
pISSN - 1101-1262
DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/ckt084
Subject(s) - life expectancy , inequality , european union , geography , population , demography , demographic economics , socioeconomics , sociology , economics , economic policy , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Health inequalities have widened within and between many European countries over recent decades, but Europe-wide sub-national trends have been largely overlooked. For regions across the European Union (EU), we assess how geographical inequalities (i.e., between regions) and sociospatial inequalities (i.e., between regions grouped by an area-level measure of average household income) in male and female life expectancy have changed between 1991 and 2008.
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