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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... Barcelona. Periods 1983-6, 1987-90, 1991-4, 1995-8 79 9.1 Infant mortality in Greater London 1990-5 and Stockholm county 1987-95 by social position of residential area 146 12.1 Male life expectancy at birth by social class, longitudinal.
... social class, longitudinal study. England and Wales, 1992-6 203 12.2 The redistributive effects of New Labour's ... social class and region by income level in men (National Health Surveys 1987 and 1993) 264 18.2 Public primary healthcare ...
... position. As in the sociological literature the choice is mainly between concepts of 'class' and 'status'. Concepts of social class are based on theories of society, such as the Marxist theory of exploitation or the Weberian theory of ...
... social insurance schemes and so on. Because people's educational level, occupational class and income level are determined at different stages of the life course, and because the frequency of health problems varies substantially across ...
A European Perspective Martijntje Bakker, Johan Mackenbach. (for example, father's occupational class) determines socioeconomic status in adulthood (despite social mobility, many adults are in the same occupational class as their parents) ...
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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