ABSTRACT
Providing another, cross-national vantage on links between class, gender inequality, and health is the investigation reported in Chapter 14, by Ossi Rahkonen and colleagues, on "Understanding Income Inequalities in Health among Men and Women in Britain and Finland," first published International Journal of Health Services in 2000 (4). Relevant findings included the greater salience of household, compared to individual, income for understanding the population distribution of self-rated health among women compared to men; and, related, the stronger income gradients evident in Britain compared to Finland, likely reflective of the latter's higher social wage. Further illustrating the relevance of a lifecourse perspective on work, Chapter 15, by Sarah Arber, takes on the topic of"Integrating Nonemployment into Research on Health Inequalities" (5). In this analysis, first published in International Journal of Health Services in 1996, Arber demonstrated the importance of including the non-employed in analysis of class inequalities in health, especially older women and men, if accounts of the working class burden of ill-health are to be adequately estimated.
