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Monitoring Social Differentials in Health Expectancies

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International Handbook of Health Expectancies

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Poor health and mortality are both associated with social factors operating across the life course. Monitoring and understanding social disparities in health expectancies has become a major issue. The chapter first discusses the importance of measuring social inequalities in health expectancy. Second, the chapter introduces some methodological questions. Third, it presents a review of the studies on health expectancies by social status and describes the patterns revealed by this international literature. Studies disclose large gaps in healthy life expectancies across education or occupational groups, larger than gaps in life expectancies. There is a systematic double disadvantage at the bottom of the social ladder: more unhealthy years in a shorter life expectancy. The magnitude of the gaps between social groups varies between men and women and across countries. We discuss reasons for these variations and the association between health, mortality and social status. Finally, the chapter identifies some future developments for this research area.

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Cambois, E., Brønnum-Hansen, H., Hayward, M., Nusselder, W.J. (2020). Monitoring Social Differentials in Health Expectancies. In: Jagger, C., Crimmins, E.M., Saito, Y., De Carvalho Yokota, R.T., Van Oyen, H., Robine, JM. (eds) International Handbook of Health Expectancies. International Handbooks of Population, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37668-0_4

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