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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
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The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama's fight to reform health care was pointless as discussed by the authors, and that extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health.Abstract:
The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama’s fight to reform health care was pointless. Extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health. Instead, the president would make us all happier, healthier, and longer-lived, their logic suggests, if he could get the richest, say, 5 percent of Americans to leave the country.read more
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Venezuela's Medical Revolution: Can the Cuban Medical Model be Applied in Other Countries?
TL;DR: In this paper, a list of ABBREVIATIONS USED and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS used in the past year is presented, along with a chapter of the book.
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Moving beyond the individual: addressing the social determinants of risk taking in mining communities
TL;DR: For example, increases in risk-taking behaviour, including alcohol, drugs and violence, are often associated with the cyclical nature of the mining sector in Australia as mentioned in this paper. But, such behaviour has been portrayede...
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Conceptual Framework for Culturally Competent Care
TL;DR: This chapter provides an overview of the social determinants of health in global populations and introduces a conceptual framework for culturally competent healthcare to demonstrate how social determinant impact health of vulnerable populations.
Conditionally happy: new insights on the relationship between state intervention and subjective well-being
TL;DR: This paper developed theoretical insights that help push the literature beyond its preeminent focus on the overall size, or depth, of state intervention into private markets by asking finer-grained questions about how different forms of market intervention influence the relationship between state intervention and subjective well-being.
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Does Population Health Have an Intrinsically Distributional Dimension
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe possible sources of the distributive view, several of which do not presuppose egalitarian commitments, and contrast this with Coggon's account of the public as a shared political imaginary, arguing that the critical stance appropriately distinguishes and relates social justice and public health.
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
TL;DR: In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives as discussed by the authors, which is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research.
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
TL;DR: The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer.
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Cross-Country Determinants of Life Satisfaction: Exploring Different Determinants Across Groups in Society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries and show that only a small number of factors, such as openness, business climate, postcommunism, the number of chambers in parliament, Christian majority, and infant mortality robustly influence life satisfaction across countries.
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Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of fractionalization for the creation of social trust is examined and the determinants of trust can be divided into two categories: those affecting individuals' trust radii and those affecting social polarization.
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
John Gerring,Strom C. Thacker +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that open international trade policies, low-inflation macroeconomic environments, and market-oriented property rights regimes promote human development across the world, even when controlling for countries' economic performance.