Vicente Navarro, Carles Muntaner

• Introduction Vicente Navarro and Carles MuntanerPART I The Causes of the Crisis 1. Neoliberalism as a Class Ideology; Or, The Political Causes of the Growth of InequalitiesVicente Navarro2. The Crisis and Fiscal Policies in the Peripheral Countries of the Eurozone Vicente NavarroPART II The Crisis and Its Consequences for Welfare Services and Transfers 3. The Effects of Health Care Reforms on Health Inequalities: A Review and Analysis of the European Evidence Base Elena Gelormino, Clare Bambra, Teresa Spadea, Silvia Bellini, and Giuseppe Costa4. Ditching the Single-Payer System in the National Health Service: How the English Department of Health is Learning the Wrong Lessons from the United States Lucy Reynolds, Clare Gerada, and Martin McKee5. Visits to Family Physicians or Specialists by Elderly Persons in Canada and the United States: An Exploratory Comparative StudyMark S. Kaplan, Nathalie Huguet, David Feeny, Bentson H. McFarland, and Stacey S. Williams6. Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective, 1990–2005 Kenneth NelsonPART III The Crisis and Changes in the Labor Market7. Employment Relations and Global Health: A Typological Study of World Labor Markets Haejoo Chung, Carles Muntaner, Joan Benach, and the EMCONET Network8. The Impact of Public Employment on Health and Health Inequalities: Evidence from ChinaWei Zhang9. Ensuring a Healthy and Productive Workforce: Comparing the Generosity of Paid Sick Day and Sick Leave Policies in 22 Countries Jody Heymann, Hye Jin Rho, John Schmitt, and Alison Earle10. Overstretched and Unreciprocated Commitment: Reviewing Research on the Occupational Health and Safety Effects of Downsizing and Job Insecurity Michael Quinlan and Philip Bohle11. Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Erosion Accelerates in the Recession Elise Gould12. How Do Macro-Level Contexts and Policies Affect the Employment Chances of Chronically Ill and Disabled People? The Impact of Recession and Deindustrialization Paula Holland, Bo Burström, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Espen Dahl, Ben Barr, Lotta Nylén, Wen-Hao Chen, Karsten Thielen, Kjetil A. van der Wel, Stephen Clayton, and Sharanjit UppalPART IV Changes in the Welfare States 13. Different Welfare States—Different Policies? An Analysis of the Substance of National Health Promotion Policies in Three European Countries Elisabeth Fosse14. Social Inequalities in “Sickness”: Does Welfare State Regime Type Make a Difference? A Multilevel Analysis of Men and Women in 26 European Countries Kjetil A. van der Wel, Espen Dahl, and Karsten Thielen15. Welfare State Regime Life Courses: The Development of Western European Welfare State Regimes and Age-Related Patterns of Educational Inequalities in Self-Reported Health Clare Bambra, Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, and Terje A. Eikemo16. Variation of Socioeconomic Gradients in Children’s Developmental Health Across Advanced Capitalist Societies: Analysis of 22 OECD NationsArjumand Siddiqi, Ichiro Kawachi, Lisa Berkman, S. V. Subramanian, and Clyde Hertzman17. Gender Policy Developments and Policy Regimes in 22 OECD Countries, 1979–2008 Mona C. Backhans, Bo Burström, and Staffan Marklund18. Analyzing Differences in the Magnitude of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Self-Perceived Health by Countries of Different Political Tradition in Europe Carme Borrell, Albert Espelt, Maica Rodriguez-Sanz, Bo Burström, Carles Muntaner, M. Isabel Pasarin, Joan Benach, Chiara Marinacci, Albert-Jan Roskam, Maartje Schaap, Enrique Regidor, Giuseppe Costa, Paula Santana, Patrick Deboosere, Anton Kunst, and Vicente NavarroPART V Changes in Class Inequalities 19. Class Divisions and Health Chances in BrazilJosé Alcides Figueiredo Santos20. Wealth Inequality and Health: A Political Economy Perspective Nadine R. Nowatzki21. The Other Side of the Chinese Economic Miracle Wei ZhangPART VI Focus on Solutions22. Social Class, Politics, and the Spirit Level: Why Income Inequality Remains Unexplained and Unsolved Carles Muntaner, Nanky Rai, Edwin Ng, and Haejoo Chung23. The Solution Space: Developing Research and Policy Agendas to Eliminate Employment-Related Health InequalitiesCarles Muntaner, Sanjeev Sridharan, Haejoo Chung, Orielle Solar, Michael Quinlan, Montserrat Vergara, Joan Benach, and the EMCONET Network24. Why We Don’t Spend Enough on Public Health: An Alternative View Vicente NavarroAbout the EditorsAbout the Authors

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