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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cirrhosis Mortality in...
Borrell, Carme; Palència, Laia; Bosakova, Lucia; Gotsens, Mercè; Morrison, Joana; Costa, Claudia; Dzúrová, Dagmar; Deboosere, PatrickObjective: To analyse the trends in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis mortality, and the associated socioeconomic inequalities, in nine European cities and urban areas before and after the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. Methods: This is an ecological study of trends in three periods of time: two before (2000–2003 and 2004–2008), and one after (2009–2014) the onset of the economic crisis. The units of an...
Effect of the recent economic crisis on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality...
Palència, Laia; Gotsens, Mercè; Marí-Dell'Olmo, Marc; Bosakova, Lucia; Burström, Bo; Costa, Cláudia; Deboosere, Patrick; Dzúrová, DagmarObjective: To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality among men and women in nineEuropean urban areas during the recent economic crisis, and to compare the results to those from twoperiods before the crisis.Method: This is an ecological study of trends based on three time periods (2000-2003, 2004-2008 and2009-2014). The units of analysis were the small areas of nine European urban areas. We us...
Evaluation of data availability on population health indicators at the regional...
Costa, Cláudia Margarida Pereira da; Freitas, Ângela Mendes; Stefanik, Iwona; Krafft, Thomas; Pilot, Eva; Morrison, Joana; Rodrigues, Ana Paula SantanaBackground: The ability to measure regional health inequalities across Europe and to build adequate population health indices depends significantly on the availability of reliable and comparable data at the regional level. Within the scope of the EU-funded project EURO-HEALTHY, a Population Health Index (PHI) was built. This model aggregates 39 indicators considered relevant by experts and stakeholders to evalu...
Health inequalities in European cities: perceptions and beliefs among local pol...
Morrison, Joana; Pons-Vigués, Mariona; Bécares, Laia; Burström, Bo; Gandarillas, Ana; Domínguez-Berjón, Felicitas; Diez, Elia; Costa, GiuseppeObjective: To describe the knowledge and beliefs of public policymakers on social inequalities in health and policies to reduce them in cities from different parts of Europe during 2010 and 2011. Design: Phenomenological qualitative study. Setting: 13 European cities. Participants: 19 elected politicians and officers with a directive status from 13 European cities. Main outcome: Policymaker’s knowledge and beli...
Social differences in avoidable mortality between small areas of 15 European ci...
Hoffmann, Rasmus; Borsboom, Gerard; Saez, Marc; Marí-Dell'Olmo, Marc; Burström, Bo; Corman, Diana; Costa, Cláudia; Deboosere, PatrickBackground: Health and inequalities in health among inhabitants of European cities are of major importance for European public health and there is great interest in how different health care systems in Europe perform in the reduction of health inequalities. However, evidence on the spatial distribution of cause-specific mortality across neighbourhoods of European cities is scarce. This study presents maps of av...