Social Policies and Health Inequalities

The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 455-483

  Quesnel Vallée, Amélie ^a,b   Jenkins, Tania ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b International Research Infrastructure on Social Inequalities in Health (IRIS)   (Canada)

^c Research Council of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adverse socioeconomic conditions in utero infancy and childhood, critical determinants of poor health in adulthood; Gainful employment as significant social activities; Health inequalities linked to social policies; Healthy living spaces and reducing social inequalities in health; Low social status, poor health and mortality relationship; Notion of social inequalities in health; Poverty and increasing risk of social exclusion; Social determinants of health; Social policies and health inequalities; Socioeconomic status (SES) over life course and cumulative effects on health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889451401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314786.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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