[Purpose:] The purpose of this paper is to examine how access to health care for (rejected) asylum seekers in an … theorisations of "everyday practices" as "tactics" of resistance to an imposed order. [Findings:] Accomplishing health care access … involved a range of structural barriers and humiliating interactions with administrative and health care staff, which had …

This paper analyses the impact of new institutional structures in global health governance on the realization of social … rights in poor countries. Meanwhile, health is broadly seen as an import precondition for social and economic development … related diseases. The paper concludes that global health governance is characterized by a combination of moral values and …

on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany … analysed self-rated general health as well as the self-reported absence and prevalence of specific diseases which are directly …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …

We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and … worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we consider – i.e. general self-assessed health but also more specific … workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate …