The public's health is intimately linked to politics and policy. But political science has yet to
make a major contribution to understanding the political economy of health (as distinct from …

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

Research that fulsomely characterizes context improves our understanding of the processes
of implementation and the effectiveness of interventions to improve the health of populations …

The recent economic recession has led to increases in suicide, but whether US state
unemployment insurance programs ameliorate this association has not been examined …

Objectives. We assessed the impact of unemployment benefit programs on the health of the
unemployed. Methods. We linked US state law data on maximum allowable unemployment …

This article provides a statistical analysis of the core contentions of the'varieties of
capitalism'perspective on comparative capitalism. We construct indices to assess whether …

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

There are large socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol-related harm. The alcohol harm
paradox (AHP) is the consistent finding that lower socioeconomic groups consume the same …

Current work and health research is fragmented, focusing on jobs, exposures, specific
worker groups, work organization, or employment contracts. An emphasis on the labor …

Work contributes to health and health inequity in complex ways. The traditional exposure-
disease framework used in occupational health research is not equipped to address societal …