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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... interventions and policies. Reducing Inequalities in Health: A European Perspective: • brings together an unrivalled collection of contemporary data on successful policies and interventions compares differences in approach by country ...
... Interventions and policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health 51 3 Income maintenance policies: Determining their potential impact on socioeconomic inequalities in health 53 F. DIDERICHSEN 4 Income maintenance policies: The ...
... policies and interventions 104 R. PRATTALAg G. ROOSg K. HULSHOF AND M. SIHTO 8 Smoking policies 125 S. PLATT, A. AMOS, W. GNICH AND O. PARRY 9 Children, an important target group for the reduction of socioeconomic inequalities in health ...
... interventions and policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health; to explore opportunities for developing comparative or collaborative research to evaluate such interventions and policies. Meetings of the Network have been ...
... interventions and policies which can effectively reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health. The main purpose of this book is, therefore, to describe available evidence of interventions and policies which have been successful in the ...
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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