While Norway has experienced income growth accompanied by a large decline in mortality during the past several decades, little is known about distribution of these improvements longevity across distribution. Using municipality-level and data, we show that stark gradient infant municipalities 1950s mostly closed late 1960s. However, for older age categories persisted until 2010 only flattened th...

The persistent correlations between income and mortality, and inequality and mortality in the US is well established. It has been demonstrated with various empirical models at different levels of analysis. However, there is no consensus on the relevant confounding factors or even the functional specification of the income-inequality-health relationship across the literature. We interpret this a...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to assess whether deprivation inequality at small area level in England is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and to assess whether this provides evidence of an association between area-level and individual-level risk. METHODS Mortality rates for all wards in England were calculated using all CHD deaths between 2001 and 2006. Wa...

OBJECTIVE Considering both the economic crisis of 2008 and the Gender Equality Law (2007), this study analyses the association between gender inequality in Spanish Autonomous Communities (AC) and intimate partner violence (IPV) from 2006 to 2014 in terms of socio-demographic characteristics. METHODS Ecological study in the 17 Spanish AC on the correlation between the reported cases by IPV and...

BACKGROUND Within Europe, women in the southern regions have the lowest inequalities in mortality. This study evaluates inequalities in mortality from different causes by educational level and their contribution to total mortality inequalities in adult women in one of these regions. METHODS The 2001 population census in the Region of Madrid was linked with deaths in the following 20 months ac...