wow-inequalities/02-data/intermediate/wos_sample/ad8b70e480e9b9f7f3ff0c3434431691-navarro-v-and-shi/info.yaml

abstract: 'This analysis reflects on the importance of political parties, and the

  policies they implement when in government, in determining the level of

  equalities/inequalities in a society, the extent of the welfare state

  (including the level of health care coverage by the state), the

  employment/unemployment rate, and the level of population health. The

  study looks at the impact of the major political traditions in the

  advanced OECD countries during the golden years of capitalism

  (1945-1980) - social democratic, Christian democratic, liberal, and

  ex-fascist - in four areas: (1) the main determinants of income

  inequalities, such as the overall distribution of income derived from

  capital versus labor, wage dispersion in the labor force, the

  redistributive effect of the welfare state, and the levels and types of

  employment/unemployment; (2) levels of public expenditures and health

  care benefits coverage; (3) public support of services to families, such

  as child care and domiciliary care; and (4) the level of population

  health as measured by infant mortality rates. The results indicate that

  political traditions more committed to redistributive policies (both

  economic and social) and full-employment policies, such as the social

  democratic parties, were generally more successful in improving the

  health of populations, such as reducing infant mortality. The erroneous

  assumption of a conflict between social equity and economic efficiency,

  as in the liberal tradition, is also discussed. The study aims at

  filling a void in the growing health and social inequalities literature,

  which rarely touches on the importance of political forces in

  influencing inequalities. The data used in the study are largely from

  OECD health data for 1997 and 1998; the OECD statistical services; the

  comparative welfare state data set assembled by Huber, Ragin and

  Stephens; and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. (C) 2001 Elsevier

  Science Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Navarro, V (Corresponding Author), Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Hyg \& Publ
  Hlth, Dept Hlth Policy \& Management, 4th Floor,624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205
  USA.

  Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Hyg \& Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Policy \& Management, Baltimore,
  MD 21205 USA.'
author: Navarro, V and Shi, LY
author_list:
- family: Navarro
  given: V
- family: Shi
  given: LY
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00197-0
files: []
issn: 0277-9536
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE \& MEDICINE
keywords: social inequalities; health; welfare state
keywords-plus: WELFARE-STATE; QUALITY; LIFE
language: English
month: FEB
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '18'
orcid-numbers: Navarro, Vicente/0000-0002-3310-3984
pages: 481-491
papis_id: ce1a9168e0bc0e179be06088118b1e5f
ref: Navarro2001politicalcontext
researcherid-numbers: Navarro, Vicente/E-8174-2014
times-cited: '291'
title: The political context of social inequalities and health
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000165962500013
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '68'
volume: '52'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical'
year: '2001'