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Health inequalities by socioeconomic characteristics in Spain: the economic crisis effect

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal for Equity in Health, April 2016
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Title
Health inequalities by socioeconomic characteristics in Spain: the economic crisis effect
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International Journal for Equity in Health, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12939-016-0346-4
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Clara Barroso, Ignacio Abásolo, José J. Cáceres

Abstract

An economic crisis can widen health inequalities between individuals. The aim of this paper is to explore differences in the effect of socioeconomic characteristics on Spaniards' self-assessed health status, depending on the Spanish economic situation. Data from the 2006-2007 and 2011-2012 National Health Surveys were used and binary logit and probit models were estimated to approximate the effects of socioeconomic characteristics on the likelihood to report good health. The difference between high and low education levels leads to differences in the likelihood to report good health of 16.00-16.25 and 18.15-18.22 percentage points in 2006-07 and 2011-12, respectively. In these two periods, the difference between employees and unemployed is 5.24-5.40 and 4.60-4.90 percentage points, respectively. Additionally, the difference between people who live in households with better socioeconomic conditions and those who are in worse situation reaches 5.37-5.46 and 3.63-3.74 percentage points for the same periods, respectively. The magnitude of the contribution of socioeconomic characteristics to health inequalities changes with the economic cycle; but this effect is different depending on the socioeconomic characteristics indicator that is being measured. In recessive periods, health inequalities due to education level increase, but those linked to individual professional status and household living conditions are attenuated. When the joint effects of individuals' characteristics are considered, the economic crisis brings about a slight increase in the inequalities in the probability of reporting good health between the two extreme profiles of individuals. The design of public policies aimed at preventing any worsening of health inequalities during recession periods should take into account these differential effects of socioeconomic characteristics indicators on health inequalities.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 17%
Student > Master 12 15%
Student > Bachelor 10 12%
Researcher 7 9%
Other 7 9%
Other 16 20%
Unknown 16 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 28%
Social Sciences 15 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 26 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2017.
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