Our article aims to present an in-depth analysis of the correlation between
health status and poverty in European countries. Our research is grounded on
two types of data: a survey of the perceptions of the European citizens
related to their own physical and mental health conducted in 2017 in
European Union countries and the United Kingdom on a sample of 28,000
respondents and macroeconomic data retrieved from Eurostat Database, showing
the incidence of poverty and working poor in Europe during the 2017-2019
time span. Multiple logistic regression has revealed that self-rated health
status is influenced by the sociodemographic characteristics of the
respondents, whereas TwoStep Cluster analysis and Mann-Whitney U test proved
that health is an important driver of the differences between countries in
terms of poverty and working poor. The originality of our research stems
from both the integrated approach, the analysis being made at individual,
group, and country levels, and by the results that bring new evidence about
population health status as a determinant of quality of life and national
competitiveness.