Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Christine Fekete, Hannah Tough, Annelie Schedin Leiulfsrud, Karin Postma, Andrea Boekel, Piotr Tederko, Jan D. Reinhardt
Summary: This study aims to investigate the associations of individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) and country-level socioeconomic development (SED) with mental health in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). The results showed that financial hardship and subjective status consistently predicted individual-level mental health inequalities. Higher socioeconomic development was associated with better mental health within higher-resourced countries.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Dominic Weinberg, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens, Candace Currie, Katrijn Delaruelle, Maxim Dierckens, Michela Lenzi, Gill Main, Catrin Finkenauer
Summary: The study found that country-level meritocratic beliefs may moderate the association between socioeconomic status and life satisfaction, as well as psychosomatic complaints in adolescent mental health. The relationships between family affluence and perceived family wealth with adolescent mental health outcomes vary across different countries.
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
(2021)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Stephanie Hoffmann, Lydia Sander, Benjamin Wachtler, Miriam Blume, Sven Schneider, Max Herke, Claudia R. Pischke, Paula Mayara Matos Fialho, Wiebke Schuettig, Marie Tallarek, Thomas Lampert, Jacob Spallek
Summary: This scoping review aims to synthesize existing research on the mediating and moderating effects of family characteristics on socioeconomic health inequalities during early childhood. The study found that family processes and living conditions have an impact on health inequalities, while family structure/size moderates health inequalities. However, there are still knowledge gaps that need further research on the role of family health literacy and other health outcomes, as well as the development of health inequalities over the life course starting at birth.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Julia Nadine Doetsch, Ricardo Almendra, Milton Severo, Teresa Leao, Eva Pilot, Thomas Krafft, Henrique Barros
Summary: This study aims to assess the impact of the economic crisis on perinatal mortality rates and infant mortality rates in Portugal, Greece, Italy, and Spain, and their association with socioeconomic indicators. The results show that the economic crisis has affected perinatal and infant mortality rates in these countries, and there is a close correlation with socioeconomic indicators. Therefore, strengthening social protection and healthcare systems are needed to protect the population's health.
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jesus Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Pekka Martikainen, Jose Manuel Aburto, Giuseppe Costa, Riina Peltonen, Nicolas Zengarini, Alison Sizer, Anton E. Kunst, Fanny Janssen
Summary: This study examines the long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy at age 30 in England, Finland, and Italy. The findings suggest that reducing mortality among the low-educated at young ages is crucial for decreasing educational inequalities.
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nora Kovacs, Orsolya Liska, Enoabasi Omonigho Idara-Umoren, Nour Mahrouseh, Orsolya Varga
Summary: This study aimed to describe the trends of dental care utilization among older people in European countries and compare it with other types of healthcare services, taking into account socio-economic factors and welfare systems. The results showed that Scandinavian countries had the highest attendance rate for dental care, while Southern and Bismarckian countries had improving trends. There were expanding differences in dental care utilization between socio-economic groups, especially regarding income level and residential area. Income level and unemployed status significantly affected the decision to forgo dental care due to cost and unavailability.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Charlotte Nicolas, Manon Rouche, Maxim Dierckens, Colette Kelly, Anne-Siri Fismen, Paola Nardone, Katia Castetbon, Angeline Chatelan
Summary: The study investigated time trends in daily fruit consumption among Western European adolescents and related socioeconomic inequalities. The prevalence of daily fruit consumption increased in 10 countries and decreased in 3 countries between 2002 and 2018. Socioeconomic inequalities in fruit consumption increased in several countries, except for Norway where they decreased.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Anne-Siri Fismen, Marta Buoncristiano, Julianne Williams, Arnfinn Helleve, Marta Bakacs, Ingunn Holden Bergh, Vesselka Duleva, Anna Fijalkowska, Andrea Gualtieri, Tatjana Hejgaard, Jolanda Hyska, Cecily C. Kelleher, Lene Kierkegaard, Enisa Kujundzic, Marie Kunesova, Sanja Music Milanovic, Paola Nardone, Eha Nurk, Sergej M. Ostojic, Ausra Petrauskiene, Ivo Rakovac, Ana Isabel Rito, Harry Rutter, Elena Sacchini, Dragana Stojisavljevic, Victoria Farrugia Sant'Angelo, Lela Shengelia, Angela Spinelli, Igor Spiroski, Maya Tanrygulyyeva, Daniel Weghuber, Joao Breda
Summary: This study found that lower SES is associated with unhealthy food habits, particularly as assessed by parental education and family perceived wealth, but not parental employment status. There are cross-national and regional variations in the associations between SES and food habits, as well as differences in the extent to which the respective indicators of SES were related to children's diet.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Asri Maharani, Piers Dawes, James Nazroo, Gindo Tampubolon, Neil Pendleton
Summary: The study revealed that the healthcare system performance in European countries can be categorized into three groups: low, moderate, and high. Respondents in countries with moderate and poor healthcare performance were more likely to experience hearing and visual impairments than those in countries with high healthcare performance. Additionally, the relationship between individual wealth gradient and hearing and visual impairments varied among countries with different healthcare system performances, with less wealth associated with worse impairments only in countries with moderate and poor healthcare performance.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Luis Roxo, Clare Bambra, Julian Perelman
Summary: The study found that although gender-based health inequalities did not significantly decrease overall, adjusting for factors such as education and employment could reduce the gap. Gender-health disparities were more pronounced in low-educated groups and countries with higher Gender Equality Index scores.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Patricia Gomez-Costilla, Carmen Garcia-Prieto, Noelia Somarriba-Arechavala
Summary: In European countries, significant gender health gaps are only found in older populations in Southern and Social Democratic countries, with differences in the links between the gender health gap and age among European countries, particularly in Southern and Eastern European countries.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Brendan McElroy, Edel Walsh
Summary: This study provides the first estimate of socio-economic inequality in depressive symptoms across European countries. The results show that inequalities in depressive symptoms are concentrated among poorer respondents, with Austria and Belgium having the lowest inequalities and France having the highest. No geographic pattern is evident. Housing problems are associated with higher inequalities in six out of the nine countries in the sample. While indicators of socio-economic status such as education and income are not associated, financial strain is significant.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Maxim Dierckens, Matthias Richter, Irene Moor, Frank J. Elgar, Els Clays, Benedicte Deforche, Bart De Clercq
Summary: Information on trends in adolescent health inequalities is scarce but suggests that inequalities are increasing. There are disparities in both material and non-material socioeconomic resources, and non-material inequalities are increasing in most health behaviors.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Christine Fekete, Jan D. Reinhardt, Mohit Arora, Julia Patrick Engkasan, Mirja Gross-Hemmi, Athanasios Kyriakides, Marc Le Fort, Hannah Tough
Summary: The study found that factors such as education, income, employment, and financial hardship were closely related to social relationships among individuals with spinal cord injury, and the countries' socioeconomic development level also played a role in moderating the manifestation of social relationships among individuals.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Kiran Acharya
Summary: This study analyzed the changes in tobacco use prevalence and socioeconomic inequalities among male and female participants aged 15 to 49 from 22 sub-Saharan African countries from 2003 to 2019. Despite a decrease in smoking rates in most countries, persistent socioeconomic disparities highlight the need for stronger tobacco control measures to target less-educated individuals and those with low incomes.
