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Politics and health

¹ Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
² Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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Dr C Borrell
Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Pl Lesseps 1, Barcelona 08023, Spain; cborrell@aspb.cat

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The amount of scientific literature on social inequalities in health has increased exponentially in recent years. However, the effect of politics and policies on health and on social inequalities in health has rarely been studied. Navarro et al^1,2 proposed a multidimensional conceptual framework that has been used to understand the relationship between politics and health outcomes (fig 1). It is a schematic attempt to show how politics (expressed in terms of electoral behaviour and trade union characteristics) is related to expansion of the welfare state, in turn reflecting the degree to which societies take care of their citizens,³ and labour market policies. The welfare state and labour market policies have an effect on income and social inequalities in the population. As fig 1 shows, all these policies and factors are related to health and inequalities in health.

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