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Access to Psycho-Social Resources and Health : Exploratory findings from a Survey of the French Population

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Date
2008
Dewey
Economie sociale
Sujet
France; Health inequalities; Social capital
JEL code
H55; H51; I18
Journal issue
Health economics, Policy and Law
Volume
3
Publication date
2008
Article pages
365–391
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744133108004556
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/448
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Author
Jusot, Florence
Dourgnon, Paul
Grignon, Michel
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
We study the psycho-social determinants of self-assessed health in order to explain social inequalities in health in France.We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions of social capital, social support, and sense of control, controlling for standard socio-demographic factors (SES, income, education, age, and gender). The survey is unique in that it provides a variety of measures of self-perceived psychosocial resources (trust and civic engagement, social support, sense of control, and self-esteem). We find empirical support for the link between the subjective perception of psycho-social resources and health. Sense of control at work is the most important correlate of health status after income. Other important ones are civic engagement and social support. To a lesser extent, sense of being lower in the social hierarchy is associated with poorer health status. On the contrary, relative deprivation does not affect health in our survey. Since access to psycho-social resources is not equally distributed in the population, these findings suggest that psycho-social factors can partially explain of social inequalities in health in France.

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