Chapter “Health and mortality” in the new handbook on social structure analysis

Description - Handbook of Social Structure Analysis

The Handbook of Social Structure Analysis presents the theory and empiricism of the structures and processes of social inequality. It pursues four sub-goals, which also define the main topics: (a) sharpening the perspective and defining the subject area, (b) recapitulating the state of the theoretical and conceptual debate, (c) documenting the empirical state of research (with a focus on the social structure of Germany, but including international comparative perspectives), and (d) discussing the problems, criticism and challenges of social structure analysis associated with a) to c).

Handbook of Social Structure Analysis, chapter “Health and Mortality” in the new Handbook of Social Structure Analysis.

Edited by Petra B?hnke and Dirk Konietzka, Springer VS. 

https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-658-39759-3.

Chapter "Health and mortality"

This article deals with the empirical evidence and possible explanations for health inequality. Various measures of health and their socio-structurally related variation are presented as well as country and period comparisons and life course processes. Causes of health inequality, causality and interpretations in relation to justice are discussed and health is categorized as a dimension of social inequality. Finally, health is placed in the context of increasing, unequally distributed wealth and the environmental crisis.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39759-3_40-1