Barnes, Lucy;
Hall, Peter A;
Taylor, Rosemary CR;
(2023)
The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: A Cross-National Perspective.
Socius
, 9
pp. 1-17.
10.1177/23780231231174832.
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Abstract
This article investigates how macro-level structures condition the sources of socioeconomic inequalities in health. Drawing on multiple social science disciplines, the authors develop theoretically grounded propositions about how different types of welfare states, varieties of capitalism, and social structures give rise to cross-national variations in the sources of health inequalities. They consider how these macro-level structures affect the distribution of five key resources important to health, estimate the relative contribution that each resource makes to health inequalities, and compare those contributions in 21 developed democracies. Moving beyond a current literature focused on welfare states, the authors show how different types of political economies and social structures also condition the health gradient. This research carries implications for policy and suggests agendas for further investigation into the relationship between macro-level structures and inequalities in health.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Structural Sources of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: A Cross-National Perspective |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/23780231231174832 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231174832 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2023. Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | health inequalities, gradient, welfare regimes, varieties of capitalism, social structure |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181299 |
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