Demographic and socio-economic factors influencing health inequalities in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2021-0005" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2021-0005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/geosc-2021-0005" target="_blank" >10.2478/geosc-2021-0005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Demographic and socio-economic factors influencing health inequalities in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Health inequalities, which could be prevented by appropriate means in various areas, are generally perceived as a consequence of injustice in the society and are mostly the result of inequalities in social determinants. The main goal of this article is to determine health inequalities defined by demographic and socio-economic factors at the level of districts of the Czech Republic in the period 2007-2018(due to the specific differences in data, the Capital City of Prague region was not included). The following statistical methods were used to process the data: correlation analysis, principal component analysis, composite indicator, cluster analysis and multidimensional factor analysis. The value of the composite indicator shows a very favorable situation in the districts of Praha-vATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTEchod and Praha-zapad (especially high proportion of university students, low unemployment, age index, infant mortality, abortion rate and housing subsidies), and the unfavourable situation in the districts of Chomutov, Teplice and Most (especially high housing and unemployment subsidies, low rate of university students, negative migration balance, high rates of infant mortality and abortion). The results specify regional disparities of demographic and socio-economic indicators that can cause health inequalities: negative regional disparities (Most, Teplice, Decin, Bruntal, Karvina, Ostrava-mesto and Jesenik districts) and positive regional disparities (Praha-zapad, Praha-vATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTEchod, Mlada Boleslav, Jihlava and Brno-venkov). The study presents the results of analyses based on the example of smaller territorial units (districts) and confirms the existence of regional disparities in accordance with research at the national and international level. Highlights for public administration, management and planning: Demographic factors are connected to socio-economic environmental factors (poverty, education, social exclusion, unemployment, social security, family situation etc.) that lead to regional health inequalities. The regional disparities of selected demographic and socio-economic indicators of the districts of the Czech Republic that cause health inequalities were specified.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GeoScape

ISSN

1802-1115

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

53-65

UT code for WoS article

000669661100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85109692770