Background Since the global economic crisis in 2007, unemployment rates have escalated
in most European and North American countries. Unemployment protection policies …

Abstract Background In Europe and elsewhere there is rising concern about inequality in
health and increased prevalence of mental ill-health. Structural determinants such as …

Background Even though population health is strongly influenced by employment and
working conditions, public health research has to a lesser extent explored the social …

Introduction The US spends more than any other country on health care, yet Americans have
lower life expectancy than people in most industrialized countries. Recent studies suggest …

Scholars interested in the relationship between social context and health have recently
turned attention further “upstream” to understand how political, social, and economic …

For more than a century, the American welfare state required working-age adults to obtain
social welfare benefits through their linkages to employers, spouses, or children. Recent …

Objectives It is known that fluoridation has a contextual effect on oral health socioeconomic
inequalities, but broad public policies have not been investigated. Thus, the aim of this study …

In response to the 2007/8 financial crisis and the subsequent 'Great Recession', the UK
government pursued a policy of austerity, characterised by public spending cuts and …

This paper aims to provide an analytical insight on the current state of knowledge on gender-
based violence among people with disabilities, a topic where the level of data is relatively …

Comparative studies of health inequalities have largely neglected age and ageing aspects,
while ageing research has often paid little attention to questions of social inequalities. This …