Work and Social Inequalities in Health in Europe

ISBN-13: 9789052013725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 538 str.

Spis treści

Contents: Ingvar Lundberg/Tomas Hemmingsson/Christer Hogstedt: Introductory Review and Background - Eva Støttrup Hansen: Denmark - Isabelle Niedhammer/Annette Leclerc: France - Richard Peter: Germany - Irene Houtman/Marije Evers: The Netherlands - Espen Dahl/Jon Ivar Elstad: Norway - John Wooding/David H. Wegman/Kimberly Rauscher: Massachusetts, USA - Joan Benach/Marcelo Amable/Carles Muntaner/Lucía Artazcoz/Imma Cortés/María Menéndez/Fernando G. Benavides: Spain - Mona Backhans/Peeter Fredlund: Sweden - Martin Hyde: United Kingdom - Karin Halldén: Globalisation, Work Intensity and Health Inequalities - A Cross-national Comparison - Lucía Artazcoz/Joan Benach/Carme Borrell/Imma Cortés: Health Inequalities in a Combined Framework of Work, Gender and Social Class - Ingvar Lundberg/Tomas Hemmingsson/Christer Hogstedt: Does Work Promote or Reduce Inequalities in Health?

O autorze

The Editors: Ingvar Lundberg has been Associate professor of Occupational Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet since 1993. Since 2002, he has been Professor of Occupational Epidemiology at the National Institute for Working Life.
Tomas Hemmingsson is Researcher at the National Institute for Working Life in Sweden. His dissertation investigated explanations for socioeconomic differences in alcoholism. His current area of research concerns influences of socioeconomic differences on mortality and morbidity.
Christer Hogstedt has been Head of the Research Department at the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Stockholm, since 2001. He is the Swedish research counterpart for two major, long-term R&D programmes on Work and Health in Central America and Southern Africa.