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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... morbidity in Sweden (men and women 25-64 years) 276 20.1 Health impacts on different population groups under scenarios 1 (low spend) and 3 (high spend) 293 21.1 An embryonic logic model 309 Boxes 1 . 1 Some integrated models for the ...
... morbidity and mortality went unrecognized, and there was even a general perception that all human beings were equal before death (1). In the nineteenth century, however, great figures in public health, such as Villerme in France ...
... morbidity and mortality rates between individual people of 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 ...
... morbidity (for example, self-assessed health, chronic conditions, disability). Analysis of these data shows that inequalities in self- reported morbidity are substantial everywhere, and nearly always in the same direction: persons with ...
... morbidity are about equal to those in most Western European countries (28). It is unclear whether socioeconomic inequalities in self-reported morbidity are increasing, stable or decreasing. Some studies have reported increasing ...
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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