118,486 research outputs found
An analysis of the role of migrant policies on the determinants of health inequalities in the EU
No full textThe paper is an empirical analysis at E.U. level of the role of migrant status and migrants policies as determinants health inequalities. Despite growing evidence on socio-economic determinants of health and health inequalities across European countries that consider the role of migrant status among the determinants, so far there are no analyses on the role of attitudes and policies of countries towards immigration on health inequalities.
Our empirical analysis uses the 2007 waves of the Eurostat EU-SILC microdata (n=200510) and tests for the contribution of immigrant status and related policies on income related horizontal health inequalities in 14 EU countries (for the methodology see Franzini and Giannoni, 2010). The policies are measured by MIPEX indexes (Migrant Integration Policy Index, www.mipex.eu). Reults from multi-level models estimation of the probability of reporting poor health show that this is both affected by socio-economic determinants as the empirical literature highlights but also that this is negatively influenced by living in countries where acquisition of citizenship, electoral rights, political liberties and anti discrimination policies are granted to migrants. Results are discussed on the light of different attitudes and policies of countries towards immigration
Prestito vitalizio ipotecario e povertà degli anziani: un esercizio di microsimulazione, (co-autore Massimo Baldini), in F. Farina e M. Franzini, (a cura di) “La casa, il benessere e le disuguaglianze”, Milano, Egea- Università Bocconi: 73-87.
No full textDeterminants of health disparities between Italian regions.
No full textBackground
Among European countries, Italy is one of the countries where regional health disparities contribute substantially to socioeconomic health disparities. In this paper, we report on regional differences in self-reported poor health and explore possible determinants at the individual and regional levels in Italy.
Methods
We use data from the "Indagine Multiscopo sulle Famiglie", a survey of aspects of everyday life in the Italian population, to estimate multilevel logistic regressions that model poor self-reported health as a function of individual and regional socioeconomic factors. Next we use the causal step approach to test if living conditions, healthcare characteristics, social isolation, and health behaviors at the regional level mediate the relationship between regional socioeconomic factors and self-rated health.
Results
We find that residents living in regions with more poverty, more unemployment, and more income inequality are more likely to report poor health and that poor living conditions and private share of healthcare expenditures at the regional level mediate socioeconomic disparities in self-rated health among Italian regions.
Conclusion
The implications are that regional contexts matter and that regional policies in Italy have the potential to reduce health disparities by implementing interventions aimed at improving living conditions and access to quality healthcar
- …
