Mission statement
The Digital Atlas of Health Inequality in Belgium was created by the INEQKILL Research Project. The atlas presents two centuries of social and spatial inequalities in cause-specific mortality across Belgium, from 1800 to 2025.
By integrating historical and contemporary data, advanced geographic information systems, and interdisciplinary research, the atlas reveals how disparities in cause of death have evolved in response to changing living standards, public health interventions, and medical progress.
Our mission is to share knowledge and new insights into the origins and development of all-cause and cause-specific mortality inequalities in Belgium, making this information accessible to researchers, policymakers, and the broader public.
Through this open-access platform, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of how social, economic, and geographic factors have shaped life and death in Belgium, and to contribute to ongoing discussions about health equity.
How the atlas was created
The Digital Atlas of Health Inequality in Belgium is the result of a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ghent University, and Université Catholique de Louvain. The project is an EOS Excellence of Science research project that was initiated in 2022. Read more about the project at www.ineqkill.be.
Demographers, historians, sociologists, and geographers worked together on collecting data about health and mortality in Belgium. For more information on the sources used to construct the database see the sources tab.
Funding
The Digital Atlas of Health Inequality is part of INEQKILL research project which was funded by EOS Excellence of Science Research call of 2021.
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