Avtor/Urednik		Östergren, Olof; Lundberg, Olle; Artnik, Barbara; Bopp, Matthias; Borrell, Carme; Kalediene, Ramune; Leinsalu, Mall; Martikainen, Pekka; Regidor, Enrique; De Gelder, Rianne
Naslov		Educational expansion and inequalities in mortality
Tip		članek
Vol. in št.		Letnik 12, št. 8
Leto izdaje		2017
Obseg		str. 1-14
ISSN		1932-6203 - PloS one
Jezik		eng
Abstrakt		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 educational distribution. Materials and methods Data on education and mortality from 18 European populations across several decades were collected and harmonized as part of the Demetriq project. Using a fixed-effects approach to account for time trends and national variation in mortality, we formally test whether the magnitude of relative inequalities in mortality by education is associated with the gender and age-group specific proportion of high and low educated respectively. Results The results suggest that in populations with larger proportions of high educated and smaller proportions of low educated, the excess mortality among intermediat e and low educated is larger, all other things being equal. Conclusion We conclude that the widening educational inequalities in mortality being observed in recent decades may in part be attributed to educational expansion.
Proste vsebinske oznake		mortality European populations analysis umrljivost evropska populacija analiza