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Home / Archives for Campos-Matos I

Welfare states, the Great Recession and health: Trends in educational inequalities in self-reported health in 26 European countries

  • Authors: Leão T, Campos-Matos I, Bambra C, Russo G, Perelman J
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Journal: PLoS One
  • Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5825059/%20

Background Although socioeconomic inequalities in health have long been observed in Europe, few studies have analysed their recent patterning. In this paper, we examined how educational inequalities in self-reported health have evolved in different European countries and welfare state regimes over the last decade, which was troubled by the Great Recession. Methods We used cross-sectional […]
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Shifting determinants of health inequalities in unstable times: Portugal as a case study

  • Authors: Campos-Matos I, Russo G, Gonçalves L
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Journal: European Journal of Public Health
  • Link: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article-abstract/28/1/4/3860927?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Background: We explore how health inequalities (HI) changed in Portugal over the last decade, considering it is one of the most unequal European countries and has gone through major economic changes. We describe how inequalities in limitations changed considering different socioeconomic determinants, in order to understand what drove changes in HI. Methods: We used cross-sectional […]
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Connecting the dots on health inequalities: A systematic review on the social determinants of health in Portugal

  • Authors: Campos-Matos I, Perelman J, Russo G
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Journal: International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Link: https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-016-0314-z

Health inequalities are recognised as a public health issue worldwide, but only a few countries have developed national strategies to monitor and reduce them. Despite its considerable health inequalities, Portugal seems to lack a systematic strategy to tackle them, possibly due to the absence of organised evidence on the issue. We performed a systematic review […]
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