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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... policies reduce the health gap. Johan Mackenbach is chair of the Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Martijntje Bakker at the time of editing the book, worked as a researcher at the Department of Public Health ...
... Strategies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health 25 J. P. MACKENBACH, M.J. BARKER, M. SIHTO AND F. DIDERICHSEN PART II Interventions and policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health 51 3 Income maintenance policies ...
... policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health 287 A. RITSATAKIS. R. BARNES. M. DOUGLAS AND A. SCOTT-SAMUEL 21 Theory-based evaluation: New approaches to evaluating complex community-based initiatives 300 K. JUDGE AND M ...
... policy targets, Dutch Programme Committee on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health, 2001 41-2 2.4 The 19 health policy objectives of the Swedish National Public Health Commission, 2000 43-4 12.1 Health inequalities 202 12.2 National policies ...
... 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 organized yearly since ...
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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