Skip to main content
Log in

Social inequalities in health and closing the gap in a generation

  • Commentary
  • Published:
Journal of Public Health Policy Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Commission on Social Determinants of Health. (2008) Closing the Gap in a Generation. Health Equity through Action on Social Determinants of Health. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.

  • Muntaner, C., Sridharan, S., Solar, O. and Benach, J. (2009) Against unjust global distribution of power and money: The report of the WHO commission on the social determinants of health: Global inequality and the future of public health policy. Journal of Health Policy 30: 163–175.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Solar, O. and Irwin, A. (2007) A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health. Discussion paper for the Comission on Social Determinantes of Health. World Health Organization.

  • Navarro, V. (ed.) (2004) The Political and Social Contexts of Health. Amityville, New York: Baywood Publishing company.

    Google Scholar 

  • Navarro, V. et al (2006) Politics and health outcomes. The Lancet 368 (9540): 1033–1037.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Krieger, N. (2008) Ladders, pyramids and champagne: The iconography of health inequities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 62 (12): 1098–1104.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Borrell, C., Espelt, E., Rodríguez-Sanz, M. and Navarro, V. (2007) Politics and health (editorial). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 61 (8): 658–659.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bambra, C. and Eikemo, T.A. (2009) Welfare state regimes, unemployment and health: A comparative study of the relationship between unemployment and self-reported health in 23 European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 63 (2): 92–98, www.Epub.com, accessed 17 Oct 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eikemo, T.A., Bambra, C., Joyce, K. and Dahl, E. (2008) Welfare state regimes and income-related health inequalities: A comparison of 23 European countries. European Journal of Public Health 18 (6): 593–599, www.Epub.com, accessed 16 Oct 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Espelt, A. et al (2008) Inequalities in health by social class dimensions in European countries of different political traditions. International Journal of Epidemiology 37 (5): 1095–1105, www.Epub.com, accessed 13 March 2008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chung, H. and Muntaner, C. (2007) Welfare state matters: A typological multilevel analysis of wealthy countries. Health Policy 80 (2): 328–339.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chung, H. and Muntaner, C. (2006) Political and welfare state determinants of infant and child health indicators: An analysis of wealthy countries. Social Science & Medicine 63 (3): 829–842.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Navarro, V. et al (2003) The importance of the political and the social in explaining mortality differentials among the countries of the OECD, 1950-1998. International Journal of Health Services 33 (3): 419–494.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wright, E.O. (2000) Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Muntaner, C., Borrell, C., Benach, J., Pasarín, M.I. and Fernandez, E. (2003) The associations of social class and social stratification with patterns of general and mental health in a Spanish population. International Journal of Epidemiology 32 (6): 950–958.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lynch, J. and Kaplan, G. (2000) Socioeconomic position. In: L.F. Berkman and I. Kawachi (eds.) Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Galobardes, B., Shaw, M., Lawlor, D.A., Lynch, J.W. and Davey, Smith G. (2006) Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 2). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60 (2): 95–101.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Borrell, C., Muntaner, C., Benach, J. and Artazcoz, L. (2004) Social class and self-reported health status among men and women: What is the role of work organisation, household material standards and household labour? Social Science & Medicine 58 (10): 1869–1887.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • FAO. 2008 The State of Food Insecurity in the World. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0291e/i0291e00.htm, accessed 29 January 2009.

  • Borrell, C. and Artazcoz, L. (2008) Policies to reduce health inequalities. Gaceta Sanitaria 22 (5): 465–473.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dahlgren, G. and Whitehead, M. (2006) European Strategies for Tackling Social Inequities in Health. Concepts and Principles for Tackling Social Inequities in Health. Levelling up (part 2). Denmark. World Health Organization: Studies on Social and Economic Determinants of Population Health no. 3.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Borrell, C., Artazcoz, L., Pasarín, M. et al. Social inequalities in health and closing the gap in a generation. J Public Health Pol 30, 189–194 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2009.17

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2009.17

Navigation