ABSTRACT
The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the evergrowing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. The approach of this book is distinctly multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary: the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, medicine, and history are all represented here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Social Policy
chapter Chapter 1|14 pages
Development and Quality of Life: A Critique of Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom
chapter Chapter 5|9 pages
Cross-National Income Inequality: How Great is It and What Can We Learn from It?
part II|71 pages
Globalization
chapter Chapter 7|24 pages
The Scorecard on Globalization 1980–2000: Its Consequences for Economic and Social Well-Being
chapter Chapter 8|13 pages
The Widening Gap in Death Rates Among Income Groups in the United States from 1967 to 1986
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries
part III|62 pages
Health Policy
chapter Chapter 11|10 pages
The New Conventional Wisdom: An Evaluation of the WHO Report Health Systems: Improving Performance
part IV|74 pages
Health Care
chapter Chapter 14|19 pages
Phases of Capitalism, Welfare States, Medical Dominance, and Health Care in Ontario
chapter Chapter 17|22 pages
Social Inequalities in Perceived Health and the use of Health Services in a Southern European Urban Area
part V|90 pages
Occupational Health and Labor Unions
chapter Chapter 20|19 pages
One-Eyed Science: Scientists, Workplace Reproductive Hazards, and the Right to Work
part VI|104 pages
Social Capital versus Class, Gender, and Race
chapter Chapter 23|27 pages
Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries
part VII|62 pages
Ideology, Theory, and Research Policy