Post date: May 19, 2012 12:21:49 PM
This report was requested to shed light on what happened to adult health in Albania during the period of strong economic growth such the one that occurred during 2002 and 2005. There is a shortage of studies that have look at the issue of health and its distribution during period of economic growth or downturn that specifically focus on lower-middle-income European countries.
The present study has used as its main source of data the Albania Living Standard Measurement Survey.
The analysis carried out provides some new knowledge related to the impact of fast economic grown on
average population health and to health inequity gaps within the population.
One of the conclusions of the report was that during the economic growth period surveyed there was
a noticeable improvement of average health in Albania. The report also identifies domains where the
distribution of such health gains shows gaps between different sections of the population, including between
rich and poor. The example of inequity gaps in chronic illness was duly highlighted in the report.
You can read the full report following this link:
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/157489/e96175.pdf