2011-2015
This project aims to obtain insight into the impact of education and nationality of origin on inequalities in health among adolescents and young adults in the Brussels-Capital Region (BCR). Tackling social inequalities in health is one of the main challenges of health policy, but in its domain inequalities among youngsters are understudied. The BCR renders itself quite well for this research, as the young population has grown steadily in the last decades, and consists of large groups of foreign descent. The first aim of this project is to quantify the relationship between education, nationality of origin and health/mortality in this region. The second aim is to find explanations for these relations, throubygh looking into the causes of death, lifestyle factors, environmental factors, etc. Both the Census of 2001 linked to the mortality data of 2001-2005 for the BCR and the Health Surveys of 1997, 2001, 2004 and 2008 are used. The ultimate goal is to offer inspiration for the development of practical measures to improve the health of the population of Brussels.
