Regional health inequalities explained: empirical evidence from Czechia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F19%3A10397759" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/19:10397759 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=2vl1DrNOHv" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=2vl1DrNOHv</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2019124040365" target="_blank" >10.37040/geografie2019124040365</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Regional health inequalities explained: empirical evidence from Czechia
Original language description
Health outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe have been generally improving over the last two decades. However, in Czechia, similarly to other countries, the outcomes vary significantly across the regional dimension. In 2016, life expectancy at birth ranges between 75.5 and 80 years across 77 districts. This article empirically analyses determinants of these differences using a wide range of explanatory variables that are available on a district level. Applying factor analysis, our findings indicate that the socio-economic situation within a district is the main driver, explaining a difference of up to four years in life expectancy at birth. Further controlling for gender specific variables, the results suggest that for men, alcoholic consumption significantly reduces life expectancy. Both factors capturing socio-economic situation and alcoholic consumption exceed the impact of health care accessibility or environmental causes on life expectancy. The results remain robust when using more disaggregated information on 206 administrative districts as per geographic scale.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Geografie: Sborník České geografické společnosti
ISSN
1212-0014
e-ISSN
2571-421X
Volume of the periodical
124
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
365-383
UT code for WoS article
000504824300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85077305568