Liberal/Individualized Versus Materialist/Structuralist Approaches to Addressing Social and Health Inequalities: Education and Income as Social Determinants of Health

What is it about?

There are two general approaches to considering the factors that shape health. One approach is to stress education implying that if people stay longer in school they will do better in life and in health. The other is to stress income implying That we need to reform or transform society to more equitably distribute income therefore improving health.

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