Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health

Our findings suggest that promoting educational equality of opportunity may reduce mortality and improve public health worldwide. Strengthening social mobility, especially in settings with persistent educational inequality, can be an effective policy lever for reducing health disparities and supporting healthier populations.

Authors

Caspar Kaiser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3945-9137)
Elias Nosrati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0106-1564)
Alexi Gugushvili (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3933-9111)

Institutions

University of Oslo (NO)
University of Warwick (GB)

Publication Details

Journal: Global Health Action
Published: 2025-08-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2025.2540167
Primary Topic: Global Health Care Issues
Type: article
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Funders

Oxford University Press

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Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health

Caspar Kaiser, Elias Nosrati, Alexi Gugushvili

Aug 20, 2025

Global Health Action

Global Health Care Issues

article

Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world: implications for global public health

Caspar Kaiser, Elias Nosrati, Alexi Gugushvili

August 20, 2025article en

Abstract

Our findings suggest that promoting educational equality of opportunity may reduce mortality and improve public health worldwide. Strengthening social mobility, especially in settings with persistent educational inequality, can be an effective policy lever for reducing health disparities and supporting healthier populations.

Global Health ActionVol. 18(1)

University of Oslo (NO), University of Warwick (GB)

Oxford University Press

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Global Health Care Issues

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