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Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991-2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions
Peng, Nie; Clark, Andrew; d'Ambrosio, Conchita et al.
2022In Health and Place, 73, p. 102743
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Keywords :
Income-related health inequality; housing conditions; decomposition; urban china
Abstract :
[en] Unprecedented economic growth has been experienced over the several decades worldwide, but such rapid economic growth wasn’t accompanied by equally-substantial improvement in health, especially health inequalities between the rich and poor. This study examines the role of housing in income-related health inequalities (income-health gradient) in urban China. We here analyze 1991-2015 China Health and Nutrition Survey data to ask how housing affects income-related health inequalities in urban China. We find pro-poor inequalities in self-reported bad health but pro-rich inequalities in objective bad health (general overweight/obesity, central obesity and high blood pressure). Housing conditions serve to reduce the health gradient, especially for objective health. On the contrary, homeownership exacerbates the health gradient. Improving housing conditions thus appears to be an effective way of reducing the income-health gradient in urban China.
Disciplines :
Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)
Author, co-author :
Peng, Nie;  School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710061 Xi’an, China ; Institute for Health Care & Public Management, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Clark, Andrew;  Paris School of Economics - CNRS
d'Ambrosio, Conchita ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS)
Ding, Lanlin;  School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710061 Xi’an, China
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991-2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions
Publication date :
2022
Journal title :
Health and Place
ISSN :
1353-8292
eISSN :
1873-2054
Publisher :
Elsevier, Oxford, Netherlands
Volume :
73
Pages :
102743
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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