The socio-demographic determinants of disability – findings from Poland • Anita Abramowska-Kmon, Warsaw School of Economics

Does an increase in health insurance coverage reduce socioeconomic inequalities in premature mortality? An analysis of the post-reform period in Colombia • Ivan I. D. Arroyave, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam ; Doris Cardona, Universidad CES ; Alex Burdorf, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam ; Mauricio Avendano, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam

Widening socioeconomic mortality gradient in Germany and its implication for the closing East-West mortality gap • Eva U.B. Kibele, University of Groningen ; Domantas Jasilionis, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and New Economic School, Russia

Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality at older ages in Quebec (Canada): perspectives from the modal age at death • Chantale Lecours, Université de Montréal ; Robert R. Bourbeau, Université de Montréal ; Nadine Ouellette, University of California, Berkeley

Individual and contextual determinants of social inequality on mortality in southern Europe • Diego Ramiro-Fariñas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) ; Francisco Viciana, Instituto de Estadistica de Andalucia ; Víctor Montañes Cobo, Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía ; Juan Merlo, Lund University