Jon Ivar Elstad

TL;DR: Investigating to what extent variations in family and pension policies are linked to infant mortality and old-age excess mortality found increased generosity in family policies that support dual-earner families is linked with lower infant mortality rates, whereas the generosity in families that support more traditional families with gainfully employed men and homemaking women is not.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive understanding of health inequalities can be constructed from a social stress model, the self-efficacy approach, the sociology emotions, and the social cohesion approach, and a striking attempt to deal with health inequalities as it seems to solve some of the difficulties that other perspectives have had in accounting for existing empirical patterns.

TL;DR: Owing to professional norms and moral obligations, care workers could lower their thresholds for taking sick leave when care organizations are understaffed, because absences will be particularly critical for care recipients in such circumstances.

TL;DR: Institutional arrangements in the Nordic welfare states, including social benefits and services, were cut during the recession but nevertheless broadly remained, and are likely to have buffered against the structural pressures towards widening health inequalities.

TL;DR: In Norway, neither a comparatively egalitarian income distribution nor generous and comprehensive welfare institutions hindered the emergence of regional-level income inequality effects on mortality, and these effects were particularly marked among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.