Ensayos sobre economía de la saluddesigualdad, pobreza y polarización

Resumo

Impacts generated by certain factors on populations’ health have several consequences, experiencing most favoured social groups’ improvements in health. By contrast, less favoured population present worse health status. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to examine several socio-economic characteristics to know how they affect population’s self-perceived health status as well as vaccination coverage rates, mental health status and obesity. In addition, it is shown whether these factors imply health inequality. More specifically, the study of different consequences caused by the Great Recession on certain variables related to health in Spain and in Europe is investigated. This thesis is divided into six sections. Each helps to examine some health characteristics throughout different approaches. However, the chapters are related to each other through health inequality, but they are totally independent between them. More specifically, each section deals with a different issue of the Heath Economics field, using different methodologies as well as data