摘要：We apply here the Capability framework to analyze the health situation measured by three indicators from a questionnaire survey on 1,819 young people aged 12 – 29 years in Bamako(Mali). Our results confirm that youth is a period of relatively good health, unaffected by socioeconomic status, but with important gender differentials. The wealth of the context appears to generate unhealthy behaviors among males, whereas young women appear to suffer more from an unhealthy living environment. Results show also that entering school and the labour market(especially for men), and female first pregnancy, are risky periods in the transition towards adulthood. Recourse to the modern health system does not appear to be a Capability, in the sense of a factor enhancing the freedom to conserve good health, but is rather occasional and does not seem to reduce health inequalities.
关键词：health; youth; Mali; socio-economic disparities; living environment
