What Makes Us Sick?

Bart Capéau, Laurens Cherchye, Koen Decancq, André Decoster, Bram De Rock, Francois Maniquet, Annemie Nys, Guillaume Périlleux, Eve Ramaekers, Zoé Rongé, Erik Schokkaert and Frederic Vermeulen
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Annemie Nys: University of Antwerp
Zoé Rongé: KU Leuven

Chapter Chapter 7 in Well-being in Belgium, 2020, pp 43-48 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We can now go one step further and examine what influences the health differences described in the previous chapter. This question often forms the subject of a loaded debate, as it is closely linked to the issue of the degree of individual responsibility for health problems. Biological factors naturally play an important role: it is obvious that ageing is accompanied by deteriorating health, for example. However, biological factors are not the main explanation for the health differences between different socio-economic groups. This chapter therefore discusses the impact of lifestyle, living environment and job characteristics on health. We then focus specifically on the health dimension of “emotional well-being”. Finally, we place our results in a broader time perspective as it seems that health differences are partly determined by various characteristics of the parents.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_7

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