Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: The Lancet, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]
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The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 19 October 2011
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61511-0
Social determinants of health in Europe
Original Text
Zsuzsanna Jakab, Michael Marmot
The WHO European region is often, wrongly, assumed to be mainly made up of wealthy countries. Therefore, so the argument goes, health problems associated with poverty and disadvantage are less than in other regions. But, in a region that stretches from Iceland to the Bering Strait, there are gross social and economic inequalities within and between countries, and health inequity accompanies these inequalities. For example, male life expectancy in Russia is 20 years less than in Iceland; maternal mortality varies from 70 per 100 000 livebirths in Kyrgyzstan to less than five in some countries in the region. There are health inequities within all countries in the region?eg, in Norway in 2001, life expectancy at age 30 years was around 5 years greater for men with university education than for those with lower secondary education.
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-doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61511-0
Social determinants of health in Europe
Original Text
Zsuzsanna Jakab, Michael Marmot
The WHO European region is often, wrongly, assumed to be mainly made up of wealthy countries. Therefore, so the argument goes, health problems associated with poverty and disadvantage are less than in other regions. But, in a region that stretches from Iceland to the Bering Strait, there are gross social and economic inequalities within and between countries, and health inequity accompanies these inequalities. For example, male life expectancy in Russia is 20 years less than in Iceland; maternal mortality varies from 70 per 100 000 livebirths in Kyrgyzstan to less than five in some countries in the region. There are health inequities within all countries in the region?eg, in Norway in 2001, life expectancy at age 30 years was around 5 years greater for men with university education than for those with lower secondary education.
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