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Round table: Re-thinking health inequalities / Johan Mackenbach, Johannes Siegrist, Alastair Leyland, Olle Lundberg, Ramune Kalediene
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Tezės Web of Science duomenų bazėje / Theses in Web of Science database (T1a1)
Author(s)
Mackenbach, Johan | Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
Siegrist, Johannes | Department of Medical Sociology, University of Duesseldorf, Germany | |
Leyland, Alastair | MRC CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK | |
Lundberg, Olle | Center for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm, Sweden | Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden |
Title
Round table: Re-thinking health inequalities / Johan Mackenbach, Johannes Siegrist, Alastair Leyland, Olle Lundberg, Ramune Kalediene
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2019-11-20 |
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p. 69-69, no. ckz185.172.
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European journal of public health : 12th European Public Health Conference Building bridges for solidarity and public health : 20-23 November 2019, Marseille, France / Organizers: WHO Regional Office for Europe, EUPHA ; Guest editors: Yves Charpak, Denis Zmirou-Navier, and Dineke Zeegers Paget. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019, vol. 29, iss. suppl. 4, November.
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Description
3.A. Round table: Re-thinking health inequalities.
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Abstract
Health inequalities - systematically higher rates of morbidity and mortality among people with a lower socioeconomic position - have been on the public health agenda for decades now. However, despite massive research efforts (and somewhat less massive policy efforts) health inequalities have not narrowed - on the contrary, relative inequalities have widened considerably. It is therefore time for a re-think: after decades of research we need to step back and ask ourselves: what went wrong? Johan Mackenbach argues, in a book published by Oxford University Press (2019), that the main problem is that public health researchers and policy-makers have misunderstood the nature of health inequalities. They have too often ignored insights from other disciplines, such as economics (which has a stricter attitude to issues of causality) and sociology (which has a subtler understanding the nature of social inequality). They have also failed to integrate contradictory research findings into mainstream thinking. This workshop will focus on three such contradictions, and will discuss whether it is possible to re-think health inequalities in a way that will allow more effective policy approaches. (1) It has been surprisingly difficult to find convincing scientific evidence for a causal effect of socioeconomic disadvantage on health. Should public health reconsider its idea that health inequalities are caused by social inequalities, and widen their scope to give more room to social selection, genetic factors and other non-causal pathways in their analysis? (2) There is not a single country in Europe where over the past decades health inequalities, as measured on a relative scale, have narrowed. This is due to the fact that all groups have improved their health, but higher socioeconomic groups have improved more. This is even true in the only European country (i.e., England) in which the government has pursued a large-scale policy[...].
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type::text::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper
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1101-1262
1464-360X
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(LSMU ALMA)990000997990107106
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Prancūzija / France (FR)
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Anglų / English (en)
Journal | IF | AIF | AIF (min) | AIF (max) | Cat | AV | Year | Quartile |
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | 2.391 | 2.678 | 2.445 | 2.912 | 2 | 0.895 | 2019 | Q2 |
Journal | IF | AIF | AIF (min) | AIF (max) | Cat | AV | Year | Quartile |
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | 2.391 | 2.912 | 2.912 | 2.912 | 1 | 0.821 | 2019 | Q2 |
Journal | IF | AIF | AIF (min) | AIF (max) | Cat | AV | Year | Quartile |
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | 2.391 | 2.445 | 2.445 | 2.445 | 1 | 0.978 | 2019 | Q2 |
Journal | Cite Score | SNIP | SJR | Year | Quartile |
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European Journal of Public Health | 3.7 | 1.31 | 1.048 | 2019 | Q1 |