Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth

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: 1980–2005
	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