Reducing Inequalities in Health: A European PerspectiveMartijntje Bakker, Johan Mackenbach Routledge, 2003 M09 2 - 384 pages Socio-economic inequalities in health are present to a greater or lesser extent in all European countries and the available data suggests that the health gap is increasing. Many studies have been conducted to explain inequalities in health and from them much has been learnt about the different contributory factors. However, in practice it seems hard to translate the knowledge of causes into effective interventions and policies. Reducing Inequalities in Health: a European Perspective: |
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... higher and lower socioeconomic status to the extent that these are perceived to be unfair. In the literature on health inequality there is, unfortunately, no agreement about the way to conceptualize socioeconomic position. As in the ...
... higher morbidity rates (22-25). A comparative study covering 1 1 countries in Western Europe showed that in the mid- and late 1980s the risk of ill-health was 1.5-2.5 times higher in the lower half of the socioeconomic distribution than ...
... higher in 1994 because people with certain properties and shares sold these to benefit from the rules in 1994. Adjusted figures excluding these effects are P90/P10: 2.4 and Gini coefficient: 0.208. Source: Eurostat 1998 (97) Substantial ...
... higher than in the lower income groups, and as a result inequalities have increased, adding to the urgency of the problem. Whether this rise H Neoplasms □ Cardiovasc diseases D All other diseases £3. Sweden England Netherlands W ...
... higher in the lower socioeconomic groups. In the 1950s and 1960s ischaemic heart disease mortality was still higher in the higher socioeconomic groups, and it was only during the late 1960s and 1970s that a reversal occurred (35-39). It ...
Contents
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Strategies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health | 25 |
PART II | 46 |
The example of Finland | 67 |
Workrelated policies and interventions | 85 |
Food and nutrition policies and interventions | 104 |
Smoking policies | 125 |
Children an important target group for the reduction | 144 |
England | 201 |
France | 214 |
Italy | 229 |
The Netherlands | 249 |
Spain | 262 |
An approach to promote intersectoral | 287 |
New approaches to evaluating complex | 300 |
Gender perspective on socioeconomic inequalities in health | 315 |
Equality of access to healthcare | 169 |
Patient cost sharing and access to healthcare | 188 |
Key messages for policymakers | 338 |
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