Explaining Material Inequalities in Health: The Importance of Theoretically Based Measures. ESRI WP124(?). January 2000

Layte, Richard (1999) Explaining Material Inequalities in Health: The Importance of Theoretically Based Measures. ESRI WP124(?). January 2000. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

More than twenty years after the commissioning of the Black Report (Townsend & Davidson 1982) by the British Government, there is now a large literature on the subject of social and economic inequalities in health and mortality internationally. In contrast, in the Irish context, although there have been several papers on inequalities in mortality (Nolan, 1990); (OShea, 1997), published data on inequalities in morbidity are almost non-existent. The first task of this paper is thus to present evidence of inequalities in health in the Irish context using data from a nationally representative survey.

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