Online lecture 7: Health Inequality in the Long Run: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Mortality
2025-05-30 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | MS Teams
Lecturers: Dr. Hannaliis Jaadla, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Content: This lecture examines the long run patterns of health inequalities, with a focus on the social and spatial patterns of mortality over the last 200 years. It explores the key questions about the measurement of both health inequalities and socioeconomic status, and provides an overview of how mortality outcomes have varied across social groups and geographic regions, revealing persistent disparities.
Objectives:

Introduce the main concepts to study health inequalities: theoretical basis and measurement.
Discuss plenty of examples from the relevant literature.

Requirements: Active participation.
Recommended reading:

Bengtsson, T., & Van Poppel, F. (2011). Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: An introduction. Explorations in economic History, 48(3), 343-356.
Clouston, S. A., Rubin, M. S., Phelan, J. C., & Link, B. G. (2016). A social history of disease: contextualizing the rise and fall of social inequalities in cause-specific mortality. Demography, 53(5), 1631-1656.
Elo, I. T. (2009). Social class differentials in health and mortality: Patterns and explanations in comparative perspective. Annual review of sociology, 35(1), 553-572.
Galobardes, B., Shaw, M., Lawlor, D. A., Lynch, J. W., & Smith, G. D. (2006). Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1). Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 60(1), 7-12.
Gregory, I. N. (2009). Comparisons between geographies of mortality and deprivation from the 1900s and 2001: spatial analysis of census and mortality statistics. BMJ, 339.

Please find the Lecture Notes here.
