From: "OSSI RAHKONEN  'Dept Social Policy'" <RAHKONEN@valt.helsinki.fi>
To: medsoc@csf.colorado.edu
Date:          Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:40:38 EET DST
Subject:       Journal issue on Health Inequality
Message-ID: <20C4CFC5F69@valt.helsinki.fi>
A special issue of the journal SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 
focused on Health Inequality has recently been published.
It may be of general interest to many.

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                               Social Science & Medicine 
                                 Vol. 44, Number 6, 1997

                                      Special issue
                  "Health Inequalities in Modern Societies and Beyond"
                      Guest Editors Eero Lahelma and Ossi Rahkonen


E LAHELMA, O RAHKONEN: Introduction

S MACINTYRE: The Black Report and beyond: what are the
issues?

M BLAXTER: Whose fault is it? Peoples own conceptions of the
reasons for health inequalities

JP MACKENBACH, AE KUNST: Measuring the magnitude of 
socio-economic inequalities in health: an overview of
availablemeasures illustrated with two examples from Europe

S ARBER: Comparing inequalities in women's and men's health:
Britain in the 1990s

E LAHELMA, O RAHKONEN, M HUUHKA: Changes in the social 
patterning of health? The case of Finland 1986-1994 

T VALKONEN, A-P SIHVONEN, E LAHELMA: Health expectancy by
level of education in Finland

JW LYNCH, GA KAPLAN, JT SALONEN: Why do poor people behave
poorly? Variation in adult health behaviors and psychosocial
characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse

O LUNDBERG: Childhood conditions, sense of coherence, social
class and adult ill health: exploring their theoretical and
empirical relations

P WEST: Health inequalities in the early years: is there
equalisation in youth?

MEJ WADSWORTH: Health inequalities in the life course
perspective

E DAHL, GE BIRKELUND: Health inequalities in later life in a
social democratic welfare state

G LUESCHEN, S NIEMANN, P APELT: The integration of two 
health systems: social stratification, work and health in
East and West Germany

M MARMOT, CD RYFF, LL BUMPASS, M SHIPLEY, NF MARKS: Social
inequalities in health: next questions and converging
evidence


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Ossi Rahkonen, PhD
Department of Social Policy
P.O.Box 18 (Snellmaninkatu 10)          Tel. +358-9-191 7779
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki        Fax  +358-9-191 7764
FINLAND                             E-mail: Ossi.Rahkonen@Helsinki.Fi