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Social Inequalities in Health : New Evidence and Policy Implications.

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Bringing together a panel of international experts, this book aims to provide answers to the complex reasons behind social inequalities in health, explaining scientific evidence and discussing its policy implications. The topics include the role of family in early life, social integration and health...

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Other Authors: Siegrist, Johannes (Editor), Marmot, Michael, 1945- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Aug. 2006.
Subjects:
Social medicine > Europe.
Equality.
Health Services Accessibility > economics
Health Services Needs and Demand > economics
Health Status
Socioeconomic Factors
Equality
Social medicine
Europe
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Life course development of unequal health / Chris Power and Diana Kuh
  • The shape of things to come: how social policy impacts social integration and family structure to produce population health / Lisa F. Berkman and Maria Melchior
  • Socio-economic position and health: the role of work and employment / Johannes Siegrist and Töres Theorell
  • Psychobiological processes linking socio-economic position with health / Andrew Steptoe
  • Socio-economic position and health: the role of coping / Margareta Kristenson
  • Socio-economic differences in health: are control beliefs fundamental mediators? / Hans Bosma
  • Aggregate deprivation and effects on health / Frank J. van Lenthe
  • Welfare state regimes and health inequalities / Espen Dahl [and others]
  • Socio-economic inequalities in health in western Europe: from description to explanation to intervention / Johan P. Mackenbach.