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ReviewZeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health2018

Socioeconomic status, health inequalities and non-communicable diseases: a systematic review.

Santiago Lago, David Cantarero, Berta Rivera, Marta Pascual, Carla Blázquez-Fernández, Bruno Casal, Francisco Reyes

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Review in Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Socioeconomic inequalities in exposure to neighbourhood environments for physical activity: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026
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  10. Does access to quality accreditation improve health? - Patient-level evidence from German cancer care.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Santiago Lago1GEN Governance and Economics Network-Spain, Faculty of Business and Tourism University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
David Cantarero1GEN Governance and Economics Network-Spain, Faculty of Business and Tourism University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
Berta Rivera1GEN Governance and Economics Network-Spain, Faculty of Business and Tourism University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
Marta Pascual1GEN Governance and Economics Network-Spain, Faculty of Business and Tourism University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
Carla Blázquez-Fernández1GEN Governance and Economics Network-Spain, Faculty of Business and Tourism University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0204-7174
Bruno Casal1GEN Governance and Economics Network-Spain, Faculty of Business and Tourism University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
Francisco Reyes1GEN Governance and Economics Network-Spain, Faculty of Business and Tourism University of Vigo, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004 Ourense, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimA comprehensive approach to health highlights its close relationship with the social and economic conditions, physical environment and individual lifestyles. However, this relationship is not exempt from methodological problems that may bias the establishment of direct effects between the variables studied. Thus, further research is necessary to investigate the role of socioeconomic variables, their composition and distribution according to health status, particularly on non-communicable diseases. SUBJECTS AND

methodsTo shed light on this field, here a systematic review is performed using PubMed, the Cochrane Library and Web of Science. A 7-year retrospective horizon was considered until 21 July 2017.

resultsTwenty-six papers were obtained from the database search. Additionally, results from "hand searching" were also included, where a wider horizon was considered. Five of the 26 studies analyzed used aggregated data compared to 21 using individual data. Eleven considered income as a study variable, while 17 analyzed the effect of income inequality on health status (2 of the studies considered both the absolute level and distribution of income). The most used indicator of inequality in the literature was the Gini index.

conclusionAlthough different types of analysis produce very different results concerning the role of health determinants, the general conclusion is that income distribution is related to health where it represents a measure of the differences in social class in the society. The effect of income inequality is to increase the gap between social classes or to widen differences in status.

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Health inequalitiesNon-communicable diseasesSocioeconomic statusSystematic review

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PMID29416959
PMCPMC5794817

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