National policies for reducing social inequalities in health in Europe

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 59_suppl, 2002, Pages 6-11

  Zöllner, Herbert ^a  

^a WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

determination of healthcare needs; health policy; poverty; social justice; social medicine; socioeconomic factors.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0036361730     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14034948020300030201     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. WHO The World Health Report 2000; Health Systems Improving Performance. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2000 [ http://www.who.int/whr ].
2. WHO HEALTH21: The health for all policy framework for the European Region. European Health for All Series, No. 6. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 1999 [ http://www.who.dk/cpa/h21/h21long.htm ].
3. WHO World Health Declaration. Fifty-First World Health Assembly. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1998 [ http://www.who.int/archives/haf/policy.htm ].
4. Draper R. Making equity policy. Health Promotion 1989; 4 (2): 91-5.
5. Evans RG, Barer ML, Marmor TR, editors. Why are some people healthy and others not? The determinants of health of populations. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1994.
6. Wilkinson R., Marmot M. The Solid Facts: Social Determinants of Health. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 1998 [ http://www.who.dk/healthy-cities/hcppub.htm#SD ].
7. Keating DP, Hertzman C. Development health and the wealth of nations: social, biological, and educational dynamics. New York: Guilford Press, 1999.
8. Hurrelmann K. Sozialisation und Gesundheit (Socialization and Health). 3 rd ed. Weinheim: Juventa, 1994.
9. Growing Up in Canada, National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Statistics Canada (on behalf of Human Resources Development Canada). Ottawa, 1996.
10. Sen A. Inequality re-examined. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1992.
11. Martikainen P., Stansfeld S., Hemingway H., Marmot H. Determinants of socialeconomic differences in change in SF-36 physical and mental functioning: The Whitehall II study. Soc Sci Med 1999; (49): 499-507.
12. WHO Action for Equity in Health. Doc. 5017232 2000/8. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 2000.
13. Wilkinson R. Unhealthy societies. The afflictions of inequality. London: Routledge, 1996.
14. Whitehead M. The concepts and principles of equity and health. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 1990.
15. Dahlgren G., Whitehead M. Policies and strategies to promote equity in health. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 1992.
16. Kunst AE, Mackenbach JP Measuring Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health, Copenhagen, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 1995.
17. Zöllner H., Lessof S. Population health-putting concepts into action. Manuscript commissioned by the Canadian Government. Copenhagen: World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 1998.
18. Kickbusch I. Health as a resource: social factors in health promotion. Global Perspectives, 2000; March/April.
19. Levin SL, Ziglio E. Health promotion as an investment strategy: considerations on theory and practice. Health Promotion International, 1997; 11 (1): 33-40.
20. United Nations. Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action. World Summit for Social Development, 6-12 March 1995, Copenhagen, Denmark. New York: United Nations, 1995.