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J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (6): 889–920.
Published: 01 December 2010
... policy interventions to address these disparities. This article presents findings from an exploratory study of the public's values and priorities as they relate to social inequalities in health. Forty-three subjects were presented with a scenario depicting health inequalities by social class and were...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (3): 487–522.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Jennifer M. Mellor; Jeffrey Milyo Several recent studies have made the provocative claim that income inequality is an important determinant of population health. The primary evidence for this hypothesis is the repeated finding—across countries and across U.S. states— that there is an association...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (2): 293–296.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Angeles, CA 90095-1656. On the Use of Age-Adjusted Mortality Rates in Studies of Income Inequality and Population Health To the editor: In our recent article published in the June 2001 issue of this journal (Mel- lor and Milyo 2001b), we demonstrate that the statistical association...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (5): 1024–1029.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Ming Wen Sarah Curtis. Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives. London: Sage, 2004. xiv + 329 pp. $99 cloth; $39.95 paper. Duke University Press 2006 Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984 . Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2025) 50 (1): 127–130.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Colleen M. Grogan Reference Villarosa Linda . 2022 . Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America . New York : Anchor Books . Regimes of Inequality is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of health inequalities and how...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (2): 315–322.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., and Bolter 2020 ). Previous research has shown that health and health care inequities in the United States are significantly associated with immigrant documentation status (Bustamante et al. 2012 ). In 2019, approximately 46% of undocumented immigrants lacked health insurance compared to 9% of US citizens...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (3): 473–493.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Republicans, individuals with low socioeconomic status, and Black Americans. Interventions focused on these communities are particularly necessary to prevent the 988 launch from creating new inequities, and exacerbating existing ones, in access to mental health care services. Accordingly, investigating...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (2): 157–185.
Published: 01 April 2023
... is a powerful institutional mechanism that state legislatures sometimes deploy to inhibit or nullify municipal efforts to address housing-based inequities. Local housing policies often have high stakes, are ideologically laden, and are politically salient. This makes them a clear target for preemptive action...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (5): 805–830.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Matilde Ceron Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic raises the question of austerity's problematic social toll for health in the south of Europe. Has EU economic governance constrained health spending? If so, have these spending levels led to inequalities, which in turn shaped responses to the pandemic...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (6): 905–906.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jonathan Oberlander Reference Farmer Paul . 2001 . Inequalities and Infections: The Modern Plagues . Berkeley : University of California Press . These are the questions explored by authors contributing to “COVID 19: Politics, Inequalities, and Pandemic.” These essays mark...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (2): 177–209.
Published: 01 April 2020
... are not significantly related to sponsorship of punishment-oriented bills. Conclusions: These results suggest that the racial inequalities and double standards of drug policy still persist but in different forms. References Adler E. Scott , Cayton Adam F. , and Griffin John D. 2018...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (3): 523–532.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... Health Economics 9 : 567 -568. Black, D., J. N. Morris, C. Smith, P. Townsend. 1982 . Inequalities in Health: The Black Report . New York:Penguin. Davey Smith, G., S. Frankel, and S. Ebrahim. 2000 . Rationing for Health Equity: Is It Necessary? Health Economics 9 : 575 -579. Deaton...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (1): 75–105.
Published: 01 February 1998
...David Barton Smith Large racial inequities in health care use continue to be reported, raising concerns about discrimination. Historically, the health system, with its professionally dominated, autonomous, voluntary organizational structure, has presented special challenges to civil rights efforts...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (2): 201–226.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Adam Oliver; Lawrence D. Brown Health inequalities and user financial incentives to encourage health-related behavior change are two topical issues in the health policy discourse, and this article attempts to combine the two; namely, we try to address whether the latter can be used to reduce...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (2): 297–298.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656. On the Use of Age-Adjusted Mortality Rates in Studies of Income Inequality and Population Health To the editor: In our recent article published in the June 2001 issue of this journal (Mel- lor and Milyo 2001b), we demonstrate...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 93–126.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Vanessa Northington Gamble; Deborah Stone What is the relationship between scientific research and government action in addressing health inequalities in the United States? What factors increase the impact of scientific research on public policy? To answer these questions, we focus on racial...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (5): 755–759.
Published: 01 October 2021
... ). While these descriptive data confirm the highly unequal impact of the pandemic, a comprehensive understanding of how these inequities came to be requires a multidisciplinary approach. It is necessary to not only engage with the epidemiological issues of disease distribution but also examine the politics...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Daniel Béland [email protected] Clare Bambra , Julia Lynch , and Katherine E. Smith . The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities . Bristol, UK : Policy Press , 2021 . 198 pp. $18.00 . (EPDF and EPUB available open access). Copyright © 2023 by Duke...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (5): 785–809.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that the “have” hospitals with the most days of cash on hand received more funding per bed than hospitals with fewer than 50 days of cash on hand (the “have nots”). Conclusions: Despite extreme racial inequities, which COVID-19 exposed early in the pandemic, the federal government rewards those hospitals...
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Published: 01 October 2024
Figure 3 Results for the association of privatization with inequalities in subjective health status and unmet needs. More