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The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

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government involvement, 163, 164±9, 172,<br />

173<br />

Greece, 165<br />

Hungary, 165<br />

Iceland, 165<br />

international trends, 160±2<br />

Ireland, 165<br />

Israel, 162, 420±4<br />

Italy, 165<br />

Japan, 168±9, 446±54<br />

legitimacy, 162±3<br />

Luxembourg, 165<br />

managed competition, 161<br />

Mexico, 218±19<br />

migrants, 135, 137±40<br />

Netherlands, 160, 161, 162, 165<br />

Norway, 165<br />

Poland, 165<br />

Portugal, 165<br />

priority settingand rationing, 161±2<br />

Russia, 165, 327±9<br />

Semashko model, 165, 172<br />

social insurance model, 164±5, 168, 172<br />

South Africa, 370, 374±80<br />

Soviet Union, 11, 327<br />

Spain, 165<br />

structure of, 163±4<br />

Sweden, 161, 162, 165, 307±11, 312<br />

Switzerland, 165<br />

United States, 160±1, 164, 166, 167±8,<br />

180±95<br />

Health Divide report, 79<br />

Health Field Concept, 205±6<br />

health inequalities, 59±60, 64±88, 173<br />

alcohol use, 69, 77, 87, 101, 103, 105<br />

artefact explanation, 75, 76<br />

Australia, 435±7<br />

Black Report on Health Inequalities, 68, 69,<br />

79, 107, 254, 305<br />

Brazil, 235<br />

Britain, 65±6, 68, 83, 84, 86, 105, 107±8,<br />

254±5<br />

causes of, 77±9<br />

China, 471±2<br />

class, 59, 65, 71, 72±3, 74±5, 77, 83, 86±7<br />

class in Australia, 435±6<br />

class in Britain, 67, 107±8, 254<br />

class in Denmark, 82<br />

class in Finland, 67, 79, 80, 82<br />

class in France, 271<br />

class in Germany, 291<br />

class in Mexico, 217, 220<br />

class in Norway, 82, 108<br />

class in Sweden, 66, 82, 306<br />

cultural/behavioral explanation, 75, 76, 77<br />

Czech Republic, 358<br />

Denmark, 82, 83, 84, 303<br />

diet, 69, 77, 87<br />

education, 71, 73, 74±5, 77, 82, 84, 85<br />

education in Britain, 107<br />

education in Finland, 79, 80<br />

Index 497<br />

education in Sweden, 306, 307, 312±13<br />

effects of marriage, 99, 104, 107<br />

employment status, 71, 72, 74±5, 79, 80, 86,<br />

87, 269<br />

explanations of, 75±7<br />

Finland, 67, 79±81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 105,<br />

303<br />

France, 83, 84<br />

gender, 75, 87, 94±109, 250<br />

gender in France, 269±70<br />

gender in Germany, 291<br />

gender in Israel, 417±19<br />

gender in Poland, 343<br />

Germany, 66±7, 83, 84, 290±2<br />

income, 71, 73±5, 77, 83, 303, 381<br />

international comparisons, 82±5<br />

lifestyles, 68±9, 75, 77, 87, 101, 103, 105,<br />

205<br />

livingconditions, 69, 77, 78, 87, 343, 381<br />

materialist/structuralist explanation, 75, 76,<br />

77<br />

mortality, 64, 67, 68, 69±70, 79±81, 85±6,<br />

313<br />

natural/social selection explanation, 75,<br />

76±7<br />

Norway, 82, 83, 84, 86, 108<br />

Poland, 340±1, 342, 343<br />

poverty, 59, 66, 302±3, 311<br />

Russia, 329<br />

smoking, 69, 77, 78, 85, 87, 101<br />

South Africa, 381±3<br />

Soviet Union, 329<br />

Sweden, 66, 82, 83, 84, 86, 303, 305±6,<br />

312±13<br />

time trends, 85±6<br />

unemployed, 72, 79, 80, 86, 269<br />

workingconditions, 69, 77, 87, 104, 220±1,<br />

306, 312, 313, 343<br />

Health Israel, 412, 419<br />

health lifestyles, 10, 12±13, 17±18, 25, 247<br />

French studies, 264<br />

German studies, 291<br />

health inequalities, 68±9, 75, 77, 87, 101,<br />

103, 105, 205<br />

see also alcohol use; diet; exercise; smoking<br />

Health Maintenance Organizations<br />

(HMOs), 167, 182, 185, 188±9, 190<br />

health profession see general practitioners;<br />

medical profession; midwifery; nursing<br />

profession<br />

health profession see physicians<br />

health promotion, 173, 205±7, 327, 344<br />

Health Promotion, Social Sciences and<br />

Medicine, 344<br />

health screenings, 95, 336<br />

Health and Society, 240<br />

Health Systems Trust, 372<br />

health visi<strong>to</strong>rs, 151<br />

health±disease care process, 226n<br />

health±disease process, 220, 241<br />

healthy life expectancy, 105, 263±4, 281n

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