Education and Income as Health Determinants in Central-Eastern Europe

Abstrakt

The analysis was worked out on the basis of Health Variables of The European Statistics of Income and Living Condition (EU-SILC), European Health Interview Survey (EHIS). The SRH-self-rated health variable in relation to education and income was used in ther analysis. There were two research hypotheses put forward and verified during the study. H1: Education is a stronger determinant than income affecting health inequalities of the populations of the, so called, new UE countries. H2: The state of health inequality, investigated during the period 2006-2015, is increasing in the, so called, new UE countries.