HUI Working Papers, HUI Research
No 28:
Inequality in Mortality in Vietnam During a Period of Rapid Transition
David Granlund, Nguyen T. Chuc, Ho D. Phuc and Lars Lindholm
Abstract: Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth following
the transition, which began in the mid 1980s, from a planned agriculture
based economy to a more market orientated one. In this paper, the
associations between socioeconomic variables and mortality for 41,000
adults in Northern Vietnam followed from January 1999 to March 2008 are
estimated using Cox's proportionally hazard models. Also, we use
decomposition techniques to investigate the relative importance of
socioeconomic factors for explaining inequality in age-standardized
mortality risk. The results confirm previously found negative associations
between mortality and income and education, for both men and women. We also
found that marital status, at least for men, explain a large and growing
part of the inequality. Finally, estimation results for relative education
variables suggest that there exist positive spillover effects of education,
meaning that higher education of one's neighbors or spouse might reduce
ones mortality risk.
Keywords: Vietnam; Health inequality; Socioeconomic status (SES); Mortality risk; Decomposition; Adults; Economic growth; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: O40; (follow links to similar papers)
8 pages, January 1, 2010
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Granlund, David, Nguyen T. Chuc, Ho D. Phuc and Lars Lindholm, (2010), 'Inequality in Mortality in Vietnam During a Period of Rapid Transition', Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 70, January, No. 2, pages 232-239
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