Social Inequalities in Health: Insights from Cross-National Survey Research 1 |
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| Coordinator 1 | Professor Sigrun Olafsdottir (University of Iceland) |
Survey researchers have made important contributions to cross-national research on health inequalities for the past few decades, focusing on how the social context in which health inequalities are created and sustained, the prevalence of such inequalities and the consequences of them (e.g. Beckfield and Bambra 2016; Eikemo et al. 2008; Huijts, Eikemo, and Skalická 2010; Mackenbach et al 2015; Olafsdottir, Bakhtiari and Barman 2014; Wendt, Agartan and Kaminska 2013). This proposed session will focus on survey research on health inequalities by encouraging submission using relatively recent cross-national surveys, including the 2011 ISSP module on health, the 2016 ESS module on health inequalities, and the European Values Survey. Such data provides unique opportunities to better understand what it is about social inequality that produced health inequalities, and how this relationship may vary based on different institutional arrangements, cultural traditions and historical trajectories.