| Health Inequalities and Welfare Resources: Continuity and Change in Sweden Contributor(s): Fritzell, Johan (Editor), Lundberg, Olle (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1861347588 ISBN-13: 9781861347589 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $130.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated but not well tested by empirical research. This book presents new empirical evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state structures and policies on the lives of Swedish citizens. The discussion, analysis, and innovative theoretical approaches developed in the book have implications for health research and policy beyond Scandinavian borders. The book builds an understanding of the impact of living conditions and welfare policies on health inequalities, showing how health inequalities change over the years, and assessing the impact of environment on health inequalities at home, at school, and in the workplace. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Medical | Epidemiology - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 2007295937 |
| Series: Health & Society |
| Physical Information: 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Foreword by Lisa Berkman, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated but less well tested by empirical research. This book presents new empirical evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state structures and policies on the lives of Swedish citizens. The discussion, analysis and innovative theoretical approaches developed in the book have implications for health research and policy beyond Scandinavian borders. Drawing on a rich source of longitudinal data, the Swedish Level of Living Surveys (LNU), and other data, the authors shed light on a number of pertinent issues in health inequality research while at the same time showing how health inequalities have evolved in Sweden over several decades. Topics covered include how structural conditions relating to family, socio-economic conditions and the welfare state are important in producing health inequalities; how health inequalities change over the lifecourse and the impact of environment on health inequalities - at home, at school, in the workplace. Health inequalities and welfare resources will be invaluable to researchers, students and practitioners in sociology, social epidemiology, public health and social policy interested in the interplay between society and health. |
