Understanding the role of welfare state characteristics for health and inequalities – an analytical review
Open Access
- 27 December 2013
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 13 (1), 1234
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-1234
Abstract
The past decade has witnessed a growing body of research on welfare state characteristics and health inequalities but the picture is, despite this, inconsistent. We aim to review this research by focusing on theoretical and methodological differences between studies that at least in part may lead to these mixed findings.Keywords
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