Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications
Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications Books
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Health inequalities according to people’s social standing are persisting, or even growing, in modern societies. Recent decades have exposed evidence of strong variations in life expectancy, both between countries and within them. This widening of social inequalities has developed despite extensive progress in medical science and an increase in health care spending. The reasons behind this are complex, and the implications extensive. This book provides a summary of the major achievements of a five-year European Science Foundation (ESF) Programme on ‘Social Variations in Health Expectancy in Europe’. The contributors are major figures in their subjects, and combine state of the art reviews with the latest consequences from interdisciplinary research in epidemiology, sociology, psychology and biomedicine. Three conceptual frameworks of life course influences, health effects of stressful environments, and macro social determinants of health, are unified, even as each chapter addresses the policy implications and recommendations derived from now available evidence.The major topics covered include the role of family in early life, social integration and health, work stress and job wellbeing, successful ways of facing adversity, and the impact of the larger environment on health. Epidemiologists, broadcast health research and policy makers, and students of correlated broadcast health and sociology courses wlll find the consequences of this research fascinating.
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