Welfare and Inequality

Strategic area

Welfare and Inequality

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Our Department has an acknowledged research community in this field and our research examine how resources and opportunities are distributed in society, both locally and globally. Our studies of welfare and inequality generally relate to health, but also to work, income, education, gender, family relationships and/or general participation in society.

Tema: Welfare and Inequality

Research Groups and Projects

CHAIN - Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research - Coordinator: Professor Terje Andreas Eikemo
The Sustainability of the Nordic Model - coordinator Brita Bungum
Childhood, School and Inequality in the Nordic Countries (Unequal Childhood) (2019-)- Professor Håkon Leiulfsrud
Comparing the Organization of Durable Inequalities in Childhood: Inequality in childhoods, schools and associated welfare systems (CODIC)
Gender and Inequality
Health Inequalities in European Welfare States (2015-) Professor Terje Andreas Eikemo
Trade, Labour Markets and Health (2018-2022) - Senior Research Fellow Courtney McNamara
New Theoretical Perspectives on the Nordic Model of work-family reconciliations (2013-2016). Professor Elin Kvande and Professor Emerita Berit Brandth

Publications

Here are some selected relevant publications. Please see the researchers' NTNU-profiles for more.

Ronald Labonté, Eric Crosbie, Deborah Gleeson and Courtney McNamara (2019): USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health. Globalization and Health.
Oda Norheim and Pål Erling Martinussen (2019): Happiness and the role of social protection: how types of social spending affected individuals’ life satisfaction in OECD countries, 1980–2012. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.
Courtney McNamara, Marlen Toch-Marquardt, Erlend Løvø Fjær, Per Stornes, Mirza Balaj, Terje Andreas Eikemo (2017): Social Inequalities in Health and their Determinants. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 2017/27 - Supplement 1.
Terje Eikemo,Tim Huijts, Clare Bambra, Courtney McNamara, Per Stornes and Mirza Balaj (2016): Social Inequalities in Health and their Determinants: Topline Results from Round 7 of the European Social Survey ;(2016). European Social Survey.
Terje Eikemo, Clare Bambra, Tim Huijts and Rory Fitzgerald (2016): The First Pan-European Sociological Health Inequalities Survey of the General Population: The European Social Survey Rotating Module on the Social. European Sociological Review.
Beckfield, Jason; Bambra, Clare; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Huijts, Tim; McNamara, Courtney L.; Wendt, Claus (2015): An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health. Social Theory and Health.
Courtney McNamara (2015): Trade liberalization, social policies and health: an empirical case study. Globalization and Health.
Vera Skalicka, Kristen Ringdal and Margot I. Witvliet (2015): Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and repeated measurement of explanatory risk factors in a 25 Years follow-up. PLOS ONE.

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SOS8529 Social Inequalities in Health

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