Book contents
- Regimes of Inequality
- Regimes of Inequality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Explaining Resilient Inequalities in Health and Wealth
- 2 Theorizing Regimes of Inequality
- 3 Health Inequalities
- 4 New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
- 5 Inequality, Territory, Austerity
- 6 From Risk Factors to Social Determinants
- 7 In and Out of the Overton Window
- 8 Regimes of Inequality
- Appendix Content Analysis of Government and Commissioned Health Inequality Reports
- References
- Index
6 - From Risk Factors to Social Determinants
How the Changing Social Democratic Welfare Regime in Finland Reframed Health Inequality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2019
- Regimes of Inequality
- Regimes of Inequality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Explaining Resilient Inequalities in Health and Wealth
- 2 Theorizing Regimes of Inequality
- 3 Health Inequalities
- 4 New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
- 5 Inequality, Territory, Austerity
- 6 From Risk Factors to Social Determinants
- 7 In and Out of the Overton Window
- 8 Regimes of Inequality
- Appendix Content Analysis of Government and Commissioned Health Inequality Reports
- References
- Index
Summary
In 1964, a nationwide survey of health and health care utilization in the Finnish population revealed striking inequalities. Finnish citizens living in rural areas, where access to medical services was limited, had higher mortality, and poorer people in Finland were more frequently ill than their higher-socioeconomic status (SES) neighbors, yet less likely to see a doctor. In response, an innovative program, organized at the municipal level, was rolled out in 1972. It provided integrated public health, prevention, and primary health care and services free of charge, and focused on the poorest areas first. A review of health policy by the tripartite Economic Council that same year articulated the joint goals of improving population health and ensuring a more equal distribution of health, a dual formulation that would later be repeated in the WHO’s Health For All agenda (interview FI5). The North Karelia project, Finland’s internationally renowned, multisectoral effort to reduce regional inequalities in cardiovascular mortality, was also launched in 1972.
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- Regimes of InequalityThe Political Economy of Health and Wealth, pp. 144 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020