The welfare state as a determinant of women’s health: support for women’s quality of life in Canada and four comparison nations

Health inequalities and welfare state regimes: theoretical insights on a public health 'puzzle'

“…However, as Raphael and Bryant's50 research has noted, women's health is more sensitive to public welfare and is improved by high levels of state social welfare, so Bartley's49 assertion that analysing the social sphere is challenging and complex is therefore well made. The intersectional nature of inequality—gender, social class and ethnic stratifications—is therefore also something that needs to be considered in future cross-national research on health 51…”

Researching income and income distribution as determinants of health in Canada: gaps between theoretical knowledge, research practice, and policy implementation

“…Political economy perspectives that require inter-disciplinary activities would help provide clear implications for policy development. Some work in Canada has begun to address these issues but it is an extremely undeveloped area (see [18,19,[52][53][54][55][56]). …”

Welfare state matters: A typological multilevel analysis of wealthy countries

“…However, while the relationship between income inequality and population health has been examined in several cross-national studies during the last three decades [19,20], few studies have explored the relationship between political variables and population health at the national level (e.g. [14][15][16]18,21]) and none, to our knowledge, has included a comprehensive number of political variables to understand their effect on population health, while simultaneously adjusting for economic determinants. Muntaner et al [17] included a wide range of variables although their analysis was based on GDP adjusted cross-sectional correlations [17].…”