The paper is an empirical analysis at E.U. level of the role of migrant status and migrants policies as determinants health inequalities. Despite growing evidence on socio-economic determinants of health and health inequalities across European countries that consider the role of migrant status among the determinants, so far there are no analyses on the role of attitudes and policies of countries towards immigration on health inequalities. Our empirical analysis uses the 2007 waves of the Eurostat EU-SILC microdata (n=200510) and tests for the contribution of immigrant status and related policies on income related horizontal health inequalities in 14 EU countries (for the methodology see Franzini and Giannoni, 2010). The policies are measured by MIPEX indexes (Migrant Integration Policy Index, www.mipex.eu). Reults from multi-level models estimation of the probability of reporting poor health show that this is both affected by socio-economic determinants as the empirical literature highlights but also that this is negatively influenced by living in countries where acquisition of citizenship, electoral rights, political liberties and anti discrimination policies are granted to migrants. Results are discussed on the light of different attitudes and policies of countries towards immigration.
An analysis of the role of migrant policies on the determinants of health inequalities in the EU
GIANNONI, Margherita;
2012
Abstract
The paper is an empirical analysis at E.U. level of the role of migrant status and migrants policies as determinants health inequalities. Despite growing evidence on socio-economic determinants of health and health inequalities across European countries that consider the role of migrant status among the determinants, so far there are no analyses on the role of attitudes and policies of countries towards immigration on health inequalities. Our empirical analysis uses the 2007 waves of the Eurostat EU-SILC microdata (n=200510) and tests for the contribution of immigrant status and related policies on income related horizontal health inequalities in 14 EU countries (for the methodology see Franzini and Giannoni, 2010). The policies are measured by MIPEX indexes (Migrant Integration Policy Index, www.mipex.eu). Reults from multi-level models estimation of the probability of reporting poor health show that this is both affected by socio-economic determinants as the empirical literature highlights but also that this is negatively influenced by living in countries where acquisition of citizenship, electoral rights, political liberties and anti discrimination policies are granted to migrants. Results are discussed on the light of different attitudes and policies of countries towards immigration.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
