Background: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world's most inequitable region in terms of wealth distribution. The full scale of social inequalities in health has been hidden by the lack of reliable data. This study aimed to measure and compare health inequalities in the working population within and between 15 countries of LAC. Methods: A sample of 180,163 workers aged 18 years and older was drawn from the most recent national surveys of working conditions or health in 15 LAC countries. Poor self-perceived health (P-SPH) was used as a health indicator, and age, education level, and occupational category as inequality stratifiers. We calculated four measures: absolute and relative population-attributable risks, the Kuznets and we...
The existence of social inequalities in health is well established. One strand of research focuses o...
Background: Almost seven years after the publication of the final report of the World Health Organiz...
The existence of social inequalities in health is well established. One strand of research focuses o...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world’s most inequitable region in terms of wealth dist...
Objective: To examine health inequities in the working population of Latin America and the Caribbea...
Background: More than half of the working population in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries...
OBJECTIVE: To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural...
Over the past decade, according to several important indicators, health conditions have improved in ...
OBJECTIVE: To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural...
More than half of the working population in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries is engaged ...
region demonstrates the greatest disparities in income and in other socioeconomic determi-nants of h...
Objective. Most Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are working toward the provision of uni...
OBJECTIVE: To expand the "Countdown to 2015" analyses of health inequalities beyond the 75 countries...
Objectives Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries have made important progress towards achi...
Background EQ-5D-5L is a standardized health outcomes instrument that can be added to national surve...
The existence of social inequalities in health is well established. One strand of research focuses o...
Background: Almost seven years after the publication of the final report of the World Health Organiz...
The existence of social inequalities in health is well established. One strand of research focuses o...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world’s most inequitable region in terms of wealth dist...
Objective: To examine health inequities in the working population of Latin America and the Caribbea...
Background: More than half of the working population in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries...
OBJECTIVE: To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural...
Over the past decade, according to several important indicators, health conditions have improved in ...
OBJECTIVE: To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural...
More than half of the working population in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries is engaged ...
region demonstrates the greatest disparities in income and in other socioeconomic determi-nants of h...
Objective. Most Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are working toward the provision of uni...
OBJECTIVE: To expand the "Countdown to 2015" analyses of health inequalities beyond the 75 countries...
Objectives Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries have made important progress towards achi...
Background EQ-5D-5L is a standardized health outcomes instrument that can be added to national surve...
The existence of social inequalities in health is well established. One strand of research focuses o...
Background: Almost seven years after the publication of the final report of the World Health Organiz...
The existence of social inequalities in health is well established. One strand of research focuses o...