Author/Editor     Östergren, Olof; Lundberg, Olle; Artnik, Barbara; Bopp, Matthias; Borrell, Carme; Kalediene, Ramune; Leinsalu, Mall; Martikainen, Pekka; Regidor, Enrique; De Gelder, Rianne
Title     Educational expansion and inequalities in mortality
Type     članek
Vol. and No.     Letnik 12, št. 8
Publication year     2017
Volume     str. 1-14
ISSN     1932-6203 - PloS one
Language     eng
Abstract     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.
Keywords     mortality
European populations
analysis
umrljivost
evropska populacija
analiza