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The political and social contexts of health

Title
The political and social contexts of health / edited by Vicente Navarro ; editorial board, Carme Borrell [and others].
Publication
Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., [2004], ©2004.

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Navarro, Vicente.
Description
241 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Social medicine > Cross-cultural studies
  • Health > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies
  • Health > Political aspects > Cross-cultural studies
  • Medical policy > Cross-cultural studies
  • Medical care > Political aspects > Cross-cultural studies
  • Social Medicine
  • Health Policy
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Politics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction : objectives and purposes of the study / Vicente Navarro -- 2. The importance of the political and the social in explaining mortality differentials among the countries of the OECD, 1950-1998 / Vicente Navarro, Carme Borrell, Joan Benach, Carles Muntaner, Agueda Quiroga, Maica Rodriguez-Sanz, Nuria Verges, Jordi Guma and M. Isabel Pasarin -- 3. Do social policies and political context matter for health in the United Kingdom? / Tim Doran and Margaret Whitehead -- 4. Individual and contextual determinants of inequalities in health : the Italian case / Giuseppe Costa, Antonio Caiazzo, Chiara Marinacci and Teresa Spadea -- 5. Regional differences in trends in life expectancy and the influence of the political and socioeconomic contexts in Germany / Uwe Helmert, Waldemar Streich and Dieter Borgers -- 6. Power relations and premature mortality in Spain's autonomous communities / Maica Rodriguez-Sanz, Carme Borrell, Rosa Urbanos, M. Isabel Pasarin, Ana Rico, Marta Fraile, Xavier Ramos and Vicente Navarro -- 7. Social differentials in the decline of infant mortality in Sweden in the twentieth century : the impact of politics and policy / Bo Burstrom -- 8. Summary and conclusions of the study / Vicente Navarro, Margaret Whitehead, Tim Doran, Bo Burstrom, Uwe Helmert, Giuseppe Costa and Carme Borrell.
ISBN
  • 0895032961 (cloth)
  • 0895032996 (pbk.)
LCCN
2004046101
OCLC
  • ocm54753157
  • SCSB-5109847
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries