Background Volunteering has been advocated by the United Nations, and American and
European governments as a way to engage people in their local communities and improve …

Background There is increasing pressure to tackle the wider social determinants of health
through the implementation of appropriate interventions. However, turning these demands …

Background Flexible working conditions are increasingly popular in developed countries but
the effects on employee health and wellbeing are largely unknown. Objectives To evaluate …

This essay examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. It
outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics—drawing on …

Background: The relationship between unemployment and increased risk of morbidity and
mortality is well established. However, what is less clear is whether this relationship varies …

International research on the social determinants of health has increasingly started to
integrate a welfare state regimes perspective. Although this is to be welcomed, to date there …

The importance of public policy as a determinant of health is routinely acknowledged, but
there remains a continuing absence of mainstream debate about the ways in which the …

The object of this study was to determine whether the magnitude of educational health
inequalities varies between European countries with different welfare regimes. The data …

The aim of this study was to determine the degree to which welfare state regime
characteristics explained the proportional variation of self-perceived health between …

Welfare state models have focused almost exclusively on the study of cash benefits, and
typologies established on this limited basis have been used to generalise about all forms of …