Johannes Siegrist / Michael Marmot (eds.)

Social Inequalities in Health

New Evidence and Policy Implications
Herausgeber: Marmot, Michael; Siegrist, Johannes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social inequalities in health remain a key public health problem. This book brings together a panel of internationally renowned experts to provide new answers to the complex reasons behind these inequalities, explaining recent scientific evidence and discussing its policy implications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780198568162
• ISBN-10: 0198568169
• Artikelnr.: 22000928

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Johannes Siegrist and Michael Marmot: Introduction
* 2: Chris Power and Diana Kuh: Life course development of unequal
health
* 3: Lisa F. Berkman and Maria Melchior: The shape of things to come:
how social policy impacts social integration and family structure to
produce population health
* 4: Johannes Siegrist and Töres Theorell: Socioeconomic position and
health: the role of work and employment
* 5: Andrew Steptoe: Psychobiological processes linking socioeconomic
position with health
* 6: Margareta Kristenson: Socioeconomic position and health: the role
of coping
* 7: Hans Bosma: Socioeconomic differences in health: Are control
beliefs fundamental mediators?
* 8: Frank J. van Lenthe: Aggregate deprivation and effects on health
* 9: Espen Dahl, Johan Fritzell, Eero Lahelma, Pekka Martikainen, Anton
Kunst and Johan P. Mackenbach: Welfare state regimes and health
inequalities
* 10: Johan P. Mackenbach: Socioeconomic inequalities in health in
Western Europe: from description to explanation to intervention