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Rewarding altruism: Addressing the issue of payments for volunteers in public health initiatives

South, Jane; Purcell, Martin E.; Branney, Peter; Gamsu, Mark - In: Social Science & Medicine 104 (2014) C, pp. 80-87

Lay involvement in public health programmes occurs through formalised lay health worker (LHW) and other volunteer roles. Whether such participation should be supported, or indeed rewarded, by payment is a critical question. With reference to policy in England, UK, this paper argues how framing...

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Educational inequalities in health in European welfare states: A social expenditure approach

Dahl, Espen; Wel, Kjetil A. van der - In: Social Science & Medicine 81 (2013) C, pp. 60-69

education group across varying levels of social spending. …

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Social inequalities in ‘sickness’: European welfare states and non-employment among the chronically ill

Wel, Kjetil A. van der; Dahl, Espen; Thielen, Karsten - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 11, pp. 1608-1617

The aim of this paper is to examine educational inequalities in the risk of non-employment among people with illnesses and how they vary between European countries with different welfare state characteristics. In doing so, the paper adds to the growing literature on welfare states and social...

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Educational inequalities in smoking: The role of initiation versus quitting

Maralani, Vida - In: Social Science & Medicine 84 (2013) C, pp. 129-137

smoking and quitting, rather than on differences in never smoking regularly (initiation) by education in the adult population … versus former smoker by education, sex, and age from 1966 to 2010 and for birth cohorts from 1920 to 1979. The analyses also … and age patterns of former smoking by education converge across birth cohorts, differences in never smoking by education …

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Effects of child and adolescent health on educational progress

Lê, Félice; Diez Roux, Ana; Morgenstern, Hal - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 57-66

Understanding how childhood and adolescent health may affect schooling is important for understanding the socioeconomic ramifications of poor early-life health as well as the relations between schooling and adult health. Using three waves of U.S. longitudinal data with extensive covariate...

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