Background Educational inequalities in health and mortality in European countries have
often been studied in the context of welfare regimes or political systems. We argue that the …

Little is known about the effectiveness of health care in reducing inequalities in health. We
assessed trends in inequalities in mortality from conditions amenable to health care in …

Background Over the past decades, both health inequalities and income inequalities have
been increasing in many European countries, but it is unknown whether and how these …

Background The magnitude of educational inequalities in mortality avoidable by medical
care in 16 European populations was compared, and the contribution of inequalities in …

Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality are a challenge for public health around the world,
but appear to be resistant to policy-making. We aimed to identify European countries which …

The international evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in health is compelling: in all
European countries, people who live in disadvantaged circumstances have poorer health …

Abstract Background Between the French-and German-speaking areas of Switzerland, there
are distinct differences in mortality, similar to those between Germany and France …

All OECD countries are faced with substantial inequalities in health status between
socioeconomic groups within their populations. One aspect of these inequalities for which …

Objectives Using new facilities for linking large databases, we aimed to evaluate for the first
time the magnitude of relative and absolute educational inequalities in mortality by sex and …

Objective The aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate whether widening educational
inequalities in mortality are related to the substantive shifts that have occurred in the …