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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... measurements. In the national experiences section (Part III) detailed country reports provide the opportunity to compare how different countries within Europe deal with socioeconomic inequalities in health at the research and policy ...
... Measures of socioeconomic status might therefore be better predictors of health, as they better describe the material and behavioural conditions of individuals that are important causes of disease. For purposes of health inequality ...
... measure of inequality in the income shares. It is defined in terms of the relationship of cumulative shares of the population arranged according to the level of equivalized income (bottom 10 per cent, bottom 20 per cent, etc.) to ...
... measure, similar findings have been reported. Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality of considerable magnitude are found in all countries with available data. For example, the excess risk of premature mortality among middle-aged men in ...
... measures of deprivation, have been demonstrated to be relatively strong predictors of ill-health (54, 58-60). How low income affects health, and what the relative importance of pathways related to low income is, however, are far from ...
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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