Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 Explaining Resilient Inequalities in Health and Wealth
Introduction
The Puzzle of Resilient Inequality
The Political Economy of Resilient Inequality
The Analytic Strategy
Analysis of Policy Frames
Case Selection
Data Collection and Analysis
Plan of the Book
2 Theorizing Regimes of Inequality: Welfare, Neoliberalism, and the Reframing of a Social Problem
Introduction and Key Concepts
Health Inequalities and Their Causes
Welfare Regimes
Neoliberalism
Public Health Approaches to Welfare Regimes and Neoliberalism
The Argument of the Book
The Genesis of Neoliberal Policy Taboos: Welfare Regimes and Neoliberal Sticking Points
The Reframing of Inequality
Shifting the Overton Window: Why Reframing Inequality Makes It More Resilient
Empirical and Theoretical Contributions of the Argument
Conclusion
3 Health Inequalities: The Emergence of an International Consensus Policy Frame
Introduction
A Health Inequalities Primer
Defining and Measuring Health Inequalities: A Priority on Outcomes
Distinguishing between Health Inequalities and Health Care Inequalities
Health Behaviors Are Socially Structured
Social Hierarchy and the Social Gradient
Social Inequality Itself Is a Cause of Health Inequalities
The Emergence of the International Health Inequality Consensus Frame
From Social Medicine to the Black Report: World War II to 1980
The Health For All Period: 1980β2005
The CSDH Era: 2006 Onward
The International Health Inequality Consensus in Print
Conclusion
4 New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
Introduction
The English Health Inequality Frame in Brief
Setting the Stage: From the Black Report to New Labour
The Taboo: How New Labour Adopted Neoliberalism and Abandoned Redistribution
Labour Made Redistribution Taboo
Why Labour Made Redistribution Taboo
Inequality Reframed: From Class Inequality to Social Investment and Health
Conclusion
5 Inequality, Territory, Austerity: Health Equity in France since the U-Turn
Introduction
The Emergence of the French Taboo against Social Spending
Dirigiste Keynesianism Confronts the Global Economic Order
France's European Aspirations Reinforce the Taboo on Public Spending
Internal Pressures for Austerity and the Self-Imposition of Taboo
Inequality Reframed: From Territorial to Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health
Health Inequalities: Discourse in French Government Reports
The Territorial Frame in French Health Inequalities Policy Discourse
Toward Adoption of the International Health Inequalities Consensus in France
Explaining the Growing Salience of the ISS Frame
Conclusion
6 From Risk Factors to Social Determinants: How the Changing Social Democratic Welfare Regime in Finland Reframed Health Inequality
Introduction
The Taboo: From Social Democratic Intervention to Respecting Markets
Creating Taboo: A Social Democratic Welfare Regime Collides with Neoliberalism
Neoliberal Taboos against Devaluation, Taxing Capital, Public Spending
European Taboos against Public Service Provision, Product Market Regulation
The Finnish Taboo in Comparative Perspective
The Reframing
The Old Finnish Health Inequality Frame: Medical Care and Proximate Risk Factors
The Early 2000s and the New Frame
A National Action Plan on Health Inequalities
Increasing Salience of Health Inequalities
Domestic Politics and the International Consensus
Conclusion
7 In and Out of the Overton Window: How Talking about Health Inequality Made the Problem Harder to Solve
Introduction
England: Redistribution Is ''Out,'' Complex Cross-Sectoral Initiatives Are ''In''
France: Spending on Reducing Upstream Inequalities Is ''Out,'' Regional Cross-Sectoral Initiatives Are ''In''
Finland: Upstream Interventions Are ''Out,'' Midstream Interventions Are ''In''
Cross-Country Analysis: Why Are Health Inequalities So Hard to Reduce?
8 Regimes of Inequality
Introduction
Comparative Taboos
Variable Reframing
The Overton Window
How and Why Neoliberalism Matters for Health Inequalities
Welfare Regimes, Neoliberalism, and Regimes of Inequality
Constructing Inequality
Implications for Policy and Politics
Conclusion
Appendix Content Analysis of Government and Commissioned Health Inequality Reports
Introduction
Selection Criteria for Reports
Coding Procedures
The International Consensus Frame
References
Published Works
Interviews
Index