Social justice, epidemiology and health inequalities
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...Different possible causal mechanisms on how health literacy is linked to health (Figure 1) are discussed in the scientific literature (10,13,16): health literacy as a specific and direct determinant of health (17,18) as a mediator (19), that is, an intervening variable between other determinants and health, or as a moderator (20), that is, a variable moderating the effects of other determinants on health....
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...Before I knew of Amartya Sen, building on the work of Karasek and Theorell [20], I had shown in the Whitehall II study that low control at work provided a partial explanation of the social gradient in health [21]....
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...Sen’s ‘capabilities’ are linked to his basic notion of freedom to lead a life one has reason to value [19]....
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