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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... rate (in percentages) of women and men (1998) 6 1.3 Gross domestic product at market prices current series in million ... rates (per 1,000 live births). District Ciutat Vella and rest of Barcelona. Periods 1983-6, 1987-90, 1991-4, 1995-8 ...
... rate of tuberculosis therapy by tuberculous patients by criteria for high risk of not completing therapy. Barcelona, 1988-97 80 5.2 Evolution of social and health indicators related to heroin over the four triennial Drug Action Plans ...
... rates by occupation or by city district. Since the nineteenth century the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality has certainly declined in absolute terms: owing to the general decline in mortality the absolute difference ...
... 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 way to conceptualize ...
... rate was 12 per cent for women and 9 per cent for men (Figure 1 .2). Unemployment rates for women were particularly high in Spain, Italy and Greece, and for men in Spain, Finland and France. In general, gross domestic product was higher ...
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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