Health and the Social Rights of Citizenship: Integrating Welfare-State Theory and Medical Sociology

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 101-115

  Olafsdottir, Sigrun ^a   Beckfield, Jason ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Health Inequality; Income Inequality; Mental Health Policy; Welfare Regime; Welfare State

Indexed keywords

EID: 85125915505     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7261-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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