Marmot, M.;
Bobak, M.;
(2000)
International comparators and poverty and health in Europe.
BMJ
, 321
(7269)
pp.1124 - 1128.
10.1136/bmj.321.7269.1124.
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Abstract
Summary points: In 1970 male life expectancy at age 15 was 56 in countries that now form the European Union; 55 in the communist countries of central and eastern Europe (excluding the Soviet Union); and 52 in the Soviet Union. In 1997 male life expectancy was 60 in the countries that now form the European Union; 54 in the former communist countries of central and eastern Europe (excluding the former Soviet Union); and 48 in Russia. The relative disadvantage for women was similar, but the absolute differences were smaller. Mortality changes after 1989 in eastern Europe were correlated with changes in gross domestic product and changes in income inequalities. In the 1980s there were inequalities in health within individual countries in eastern Europe; these were wider after 1989. Inequalities in health within individual countries in eastern Europe were more strongly related to education than to measures of economic wellbeing.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | International comparators and poverty and health in Europe |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.321.7269.1124 |
| Publisher version: | http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/321/7269/11... |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2002 |
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