Health inequalities and welfare resources : : Continuity and change in Sweden /

Health inequalities and welfare resources : : Continuity and change in Sweden / / ed. by Johan Fritzell, Olle Lundberg.

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 structur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Berkman, Lisa,
Fritzell, Johan,
Hemström, Örjan,
Krantz, Gunilla,
Lennartsson, Carin,
Lundberg, Olle,
Modin, Bitte,
Roos, Eva,
Rostila, Mikael,
Toivanen, Susanna,
Yngwe, Monica Åberg,
Östberg, Viveca,
HerausgeberIn:
Fritzell, Johan,
Lundberg, Olle,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Health and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Health, inequalities, welfare and resources
  • Health and inequalities in Sweden: long and short-term perspectives
  • Changing gender differences in musculoskeletal pain and psychological distress
  • Life course inequalities: generations and social class
  • Work stress and health: is the association moderated by sense of coherence?
  • Psychosocial work environment and stress-related health complaints: an analysis of children’s and adolescents’ situation in school
  • Assessing the contribution of relative deprivation to income differences in health
  • Social capital and health in the Swedish welfare state
  • ‘What’s marital status got to do with it?’: gender inequalities in economic resources, health and functional abilities among older adults
  • Health inequalities and welfare resources: findings and forecasts
  • References
  • Index

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