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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
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type: article
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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'