Health, wealth and ways of life: What can we learn from the Swedish, US and UK experience? Introduction to the commentaries

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 637-638

  Desai, Monica ^a,b   Barondess, Jeremiah A ^c,d,e   Isacsson, Sven Olof ^f,g,h   Misselbrook, David ^a  

^a ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f The Swedish Society of Medicine   (Sweden)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h The Commission for a Socially Sustainable Malmö   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Health determinants; Health services; Sweden; UK; USA

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC CRISIS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE; LIFE COURSE; PHYSICIAN; POLITICS; POPULATION HEALTH; SOCIAL WELFARE; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WEALTH;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857039860     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.012     Document Type: Editorial

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