Child health and access to health care in France: Evidence on the role of family income

Bénédicte Apouey and Pierre Geoffard

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Abstract: Our paper investigates the relationship between family income and child health in France. We first examine whether there is a significant correlation between family income and child general health, and the evolution of this relationship across childhood years. We then study the role of specific health problems, access to health care, and supplemental health insurance coverage, in the income gradient in general health. We also quantify the role of income in child anthropometric measurements. Whenever possible, we compare our results for France with those obtained for other developed countries.

Keywords: Socio economic factors; Socioeconomic factors; Child; Anthropometry; Healthcare disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06
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Published in Epidemiology and Public Health = Revue d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, 2014, 62 (3), pp.179-190. ⟨10.1016/j.respe.2013.12.087⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2013.12.087

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