The wider determinants of inequalities in health: a decomposition analysis

Sundmacher, Leonie; Scheller-Kreinsen, David; Busse, Reinhard

doi:10.1186/1475-9276-10-30

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 4 Decomposition results by factors for women

From: The wider determinants of inequalities in health: a decomposition analysis

	16 to 35 years	36 to 44 years	45 to 55 years	56 to 65 years
*Control variables*
Household income	-0.0007	-0.0049	-0.0013	0.0171
Education	0.0194	0.0016	0.0042	0.0143
Occupation	0.0007	0.0019	0.0012	-0.0033
House ownership and value of property	0.0005	0.0004	0.0002	0.0017
Financial assets and value of financial assets	0.0010	0.0057	0.0004	0.0290
Children	0.0002	0.0022	0.0048	0.0008
Marital status	0.0174	0.0015	-0.0001	0.0066
Immigrant status	0.0015	0.0005	0.0065	0.0035
Part-time work	0.0008	0.0006	0.0000	0.0003
*Materialist approach*
Poor working conditions	-0.0007	0.0020	0.0000	0.0227
Noise	0.0055	-0.0006	0.0054	0.0001
Pollution	0.0007	0.0007	0.0002	0.0002
Insurance status	0.0005	0.0009	0.0024	0.0016
Distance to nearest doctors practice, public transport and big city	0.0012	0.0004	-0.0005	-0.0002
*Psychosocial approach*
Nobody to confide in	0.0007	0.0048	0.0015	0.0002
Nobody supports career	0.0006	-0.0003	0.0042	0.0006
Degree of autonomy at work	0.0042	0.0190	0.0061	0.0025
Time pressure at work	0.0006	0.0002	-0.0004	0.0024
Level of job security	0.0008	-0.0021	-0.0007	-0.0041
Smoking and a lack of recognition at the workplace	-0.0024	0.0016	0.0005	0.0032
Alcohol and a lack of recognition at the workplace	0.0057	0.0001	0.0013	0.0022
*Cultural behavioural approach*
Exercise	0.0060	0.0069	0.0083	0.0140
Hard-liqueur consumption	0.0001	0.0005	0.0002	0.0038
Smoking status	0.0197	-0.0010	0.0030	0.0061
Weight problems	0.0551	0.0181	0.0279	0.0273
Smoking interacted with low education	-0.0092	0.0025	0.0003	0.0052
Alcohol interacted with low education	0.0054	0.0004	0.0000	0.0003
*Capability approach*	0.0046	0.0374	0.0334	0.0618
Observations	701	1112	1150	537
R-squared	0.14	0.10	0.11	0.22

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