caa a22 4500 445332077 CHVBK 20180317142740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10198-010-0229-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10198-010-0229-3 Social health inequalities among older Europeans: the contribution of social and family background [Elektronische Daten] [Sandy Tubeuf, Florence Jusot] This analysis aims to get a step further in the understanding of the determining factors of social health inequalities, and to explore particularly the role played by parents' social status and their vital status or age at death on the social health inequalities in adulthood among European older adults. The wealth-related health inequalities are measured using the popular concentration index. We then implement the decomposition method of the indices and evaluate the contribution of the various determinants of health introduced in interval regression models. Health is measured using self-assessed health and country-specific cut-points that correct observed differences in self-report due to cross-cultural differences in reporting styles. This paper uses data for ten European countries from the first wave of the 2004 SHARE. The study highlights significantly higher wealth-related health inequalities in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. These social inequalities of health in Europe are explained largely by individuals' current social conditions, particularly wealth. Nevertheless, our analysis attests the existence of a long-term influence of initial conditions in childhood on health in middle-aged and beyond, independently of current social characteristics, which contribute to differences in health status across social groups. This article contributes to the identification of social determinants, which are important determinants of health and follows recommendations suggested to help ‘close the gap' in various health inequities. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Concentration index nationallicence Decomposition nationallicence Europe nationallicence Inequality nationallicence Older adults nationallicence Tubeuf Sandy Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Charles Thackrah Building, 101 Clarendon Road, LS2 9LJ, Leeds, UK aut Jusot Florence LEGOS, Université Paris-Dauphine, Bureau A 522, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775, Paris Cedex 16, France aut The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/1(2011-02-01), 61-77 1618-7598 12:1<61 2011 12 10198 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0229-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-010-0229-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tubeuf Sandy Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Charles Thackrah Building, 101 Clarendon Road, LS2 9LJ, Leeds, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jusot Florence LEGOS, Université Paris-Dauphine, Bureau A 522, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775, Paris Cedex 16, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Health Economics Springer-Verlag 12/1(2011-02-01), 61-77 1618-7598 12:1<61 2011 12 10198 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer