The role of income inequality and social policies on income-related health inequalities in Europe

Table 2 Standardised beta coefficients of income-related health inequalities (Index of Dissimilarity) of macro determinants, 42 European countries, 2008/09: comparison of macro determinants

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6	Model 7
Gini index	.390^*			.409^*	.464^**		.455^**
	(.022)			(.013)	(.006)		(.008)
Social Protection		-.252		-.274+		-.190	-.117
Expenditures in %		(.107)		(.066)		(.360)	(.547)
GDP, logged			-.219		-.320^*	-.0933	-.241
			(.163)		(.034)	(.652)	(.225)
Number of cases	42	42	42	42	42	42	42
R²	.158	.0635	.0480	.233	.255	.0685	.264
adjusted R²	.137	.0401	.0242	.194	.217	.0207	.206

Standardised beta coefficients; p-values in parentheses
⁺ p < 0.10, ^* p < 0.05, ^** p < 0.01, ^*** p < 0.001 (two-tailed tests)
Source (dependent variable): EVS (round 4) [29]; data weighted using a sampling weight. Income-related health inequalities adjusted for age, sex, living together, education, and employment status
(independent variables): IMF [48], SWIID [39], EUROSTAT [44], ILO [45], ADB [65], WHO [47], WB [46]

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