%0 Journal Article 
%A García Gómez, Pilar
%A López Nicolás, Ángel
%T Regional Differences in Socio-Economic Health Inequalities in Spain
%D 2004
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1184
%X This paper reports an analysis of income related health inequalities at the Autonomous
Community level in Spain using the self assessed health measure in the 2001 edition of the
Encuesta Nacional de Salud. We use recently developed methods in order to cardinalise and
model self assessed health within a regression framework, decompose the sources of
inequality and explain the observed differences across regions. We find that the regions with
the highest levels of mean health tend to enjoy the lowest degrees of income related health
inequality and vice-versa. The main feature characterizing regions where income related
health inequality is low is the absence of a positive gradient between income and health. In
turn, the regions where income related health inequality is greater are characterized by a
strong and significant positive gradient between health and income. These results suggest
that policies aimed at eliminating the gradient between health and income can potentially
lead to greate r reductions in socio-economic health inequalities than policies aimed at
redistributing income.
%K Economía Aplicada
%K Desigualdades en salud
%K Análisis de descomposición
%K España
%K Health inequalities
%K Decomposition analysis
%K Spain
%~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN