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The European Journal of Public Health 2009 19(5):445-446; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp120
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

Health inequalities in European welfare states

Eero Lahelma1 and Olle Lundberg2

1 Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
2 Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Correspondence: Eero Lahelma, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, P.O.B. 41, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: eero.lahelma@helsinki.fi

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A controversial and puzzling finding from studies on health inequalities is that countries that have managed to reduce inequalities in social and economic conditions, itself powerful determinants of health, are not necessarily characterized by smaller inequalities in health.

Fifteen years after the Black Report, a breakthrough in research comparing the magnitude of health inequalities across western European countries was made, providing the first comprehensive evidence on the unexpected patterning . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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