Reading list ‘Inequalities in health’

Alfani, G. (2021). ‘Economic inequality in preindustrial times: Europe and beyond’, Journal of Economic Literature 59:1, 3–44.
Antonovsky, A. (1967). ‘Social class, life expectancy and overall mortality’, The Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 45: 2, 31–73.
Bengtsson, T. & Van Poppel F. (2011). ‘Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: An introduction’, Explorations in Economic History 48:3, 343–356
Bengtsson, T., Dribe, M., & Helgertz, J. (2020). ‘When did the health gradient emerge? Social class and adult mortality in southern Sweden, 1813–2015’, Demography 57:3, 953-977.
Cohn, S.K. (2018) Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Connor, D.S. (2017). ‘Poverty, religious differences, and child mortality in the early twentieth century: The case of Dublin’, Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107:3, 625–646.
Clouston, S.A.P., 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.
Clouston, S.A.P., Natale G. & Link, B.G. (2020). ‘Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities’. Social Science & Medicine, 268: 113554.
Clouston, S.A.P., & Link, B.G. (2021). ‘A retrospective on fundamental cause theory: State of the literature and goals for the future.’ Annual Review of Sociology 47, 131-156.
Corsini C.A. & Viazzo P.P. (eds.) (1997). The Decline of Infant and Child Mortality. The European Experience: 1750–1990. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
Davenport, R., Satchell, M. & Shaw-Taylor L.M.M. (2018). ‘The geography of smallpox in England before vaccination: A conundrum resolved’, Social Science and Medicine 206, 75–85.
Dahlgren, G. & Whitehead, M. (2021). ‘The Dahlgren-Whitehead model of health determinants: 30 years on and still chasing rainbows’, Public Health 199, 20-24.
Deaton, A. (2015). The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Debiasi, E. (2020). The historical origins of the mortality gradient socioeconomic inequalities in adult mortality over two centuries in Sweden. Lund: Lund University.
Debiasi, E. & Dribe M. (2020). ‘SES inequalities in cause-specific adult mortality: a study of the long term trends using longitudinal individual data for Sweden (1813-2014)’. European Journal of Epidemiology, 35, 1043-1056.
Davenport, R.J., Satchell, M. & Shaw-Taylor, L.M.W. (2019). ‘Cholera as a ‘sanitary test’ of British cities, 1831–1866’, The History of the Family 24:2, 404–438.
Dobson, M. (2015). Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease. London: Quercus.
Dribe, M., & Karlsson, O. (2022). Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967. The Economic History Review, 75:2, p. 475-502.
Dyar, O., Hagelund, B., Melder, C., Skillington, T., Kristensons, M. & Sarkadi, A. (2022). ‘Rainbows over the world’s public health: determinants of health models in the past, present, and future’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 50, 1047–1058.
Ekamper, P. & Van Poppel F. (2019). ‘Infant mortality in mid-19th century Amsterdam: Religion, social class, and space’, Population, Space and Place 25:4), 1–21.
Hardy, A. (1993). The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine 1856–1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press
Houwaart, E.S. (1991). De Hygiënisten: Artsen, Staat & Volksgezondheid in Nederland 1840–1890. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij.
Jaadla, H., Potter, E. Keibek, S. & Davenport R. (2020). ‘Infant and child mortality by socio-economic status in early nineteenth-century England’, Economic History Review 73:4, 991–1022.
Janssens, A. & Devos, I. (2022). ‘The Limits and Possibilities of Cause of Death Categorisation for Understanding Late Nineteenth Century Mortality’, Social History of Medicine 35:4, 1053–1063.
Janssens A. & Riswick T. (2023). ‘What was killing babies in Amsterdam? A study of infant mortality patterns using individual level cause-of-death data, 1856-1904’, Historical Life Course Studies 13, 235–264.
Link, B.G. & Phelan, J. (1995). ‘Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease’. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 80-94.
Mackenbach, J.P., Hu, Y., Artnik, B., Bopp, M., Costa, G., Kalediene, R., & Nusselder, W.J. (2017). ‘Trends in inequalities in mortality amenable to health care in 17 European countries’, Health Affairs 36:6, 1110-1118.
Mackenbach, J.P. (2020). A history of population health: rise and fall of disease in Europe. Leiden: Brill.
McKeown, T. (1976). The modern rise of population. London: Edward Arnold.
Mercer, A. (2014) Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition: A New Perspective. Rochester: University of Rochester Press.
Murkens, M. (2023) Unequal pathways to the grave? Time lags and inequalities in the Dutch health transition, the case of Maastricht, 1864-1955. Maastricht: Maastricht University.
Muurling, S., Riswick T. & Buzasi, K (2023), ‘The Last Nationwide Smallpox Epidemic in the Netherlands: Infectious Disease and Social Inequalities in Amsterdam, 1870-1872’, Social Science History 47:2, 189 – 216
Oldstone, M. (2010). Viruses, plagues, and history: past, present, and future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Omran, A.R. (1998). ‘The epidemiologic transition theory revisited thirty years later’, World health statistics quarterly 53, 99-119.
Ramiro Fariñas, D. & Oris, M. (eds.) (2016), New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition. Bern: Springer International Publishing.
Revuelta-Eugercios, B., Castenbrandt H. & Løkke, A. (2022). ‘Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881’, Social History of Medicine 35:4, 1116–1139.
Riley, J.C. (2001). Rising life expectancy. A global history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Riswick, T. (2018). ‘Comparing Populations and Societies: A Reflection on the series ‘Life at the Extremes: the demography of Europe and China’’, in: Puschmann P. & Riswick, T. (eds.) Building Bridges. Scholars, History and Historical Demography. A Festschrift in honor of Professor Theo Engelen. Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers.
Riswick, T. (2021). ‘Enriching the HSN with individual causes of death: A database for a life-course analysis of victims and survivors’, Historical Life Course Studies 10, 34-40.
Riswick, T., Muurling, S. & Buzasi, K. (2022). ‘Exploring the mortality advantage of Jewish neighbourhoods in mid-19th century Amsterdam’, Demographic Research 46, 723–736.
Schenk, N., & Van Poppel F. (2011). ‘Social class, social mobility and mortality in the Netherlands, 1850–2004’, Explorations in Economic History 48:3, 401–417.
Snowden, F.M. (2020) Epidemics and Society From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Villefrance-Perner, L. (2024) Beyond the Grave. Danish Causes of Death 1829-1930. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
Vögele, J., Rittershaus, L., & Schuler, K. (2021). ‘Epidemics and Pandemics–the Historical Perspective. Introduction’, Historical Social Research 33, 7-33.
Walhout, E. (2019). An infants’ graveyard? Region, religion, and infant mortality in North Brabant, 1840–1940. Tilburg: Tilburg University.
Walhout, E. and Beekink, E. (2021). ‘Just another crisis? Individual’s experience and the role of the local government and Church during the 1866 Cholera epidemic in a small Dutch town’, Historical Social Research Supplement 33: 54–78.
Walsh, D., McCartney, G., Collins, C., Taulbut, M. & Batty G.D. (2016) History, politics and vulnerability: explaining excess mortality in Scotland and Glasgow. Glasgow: Glasgow Centre for Population Health.
Watt, G. & Ecob, R. (1992). ‘Mortality in Glasgow and Edinburgh: a paradigm of inequality in health’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 46, 498-505.
Wolleswinkel-van den Bosch, J.H. (1998). The epidemiological transition in the Netherlands. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Zijdeman, R. & Ribeiro de Silva, F. (2014) ‘Life expectancy since 1820’, in: Van Zanden, J.L., Baten, J., Mira d’Ercole, M., Rijpma, A., Smith, C. & Timmer, M. (eds.). How was life? Global well-being since 1820. OECD Publishing.

Alfani, G. (2021). ‘Economic inequality in preindustrial times: Europe and beyond’, Journal of Economic Literature 59:1, 3–44.

Antonovsky, A. (1967). ‘Social class, life expectancy and overall mortality’, The Millbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 45: 2, 31–73.

Bengtsson, T. & Van Poppel F. (2011). ‘Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present: An introduction’, Explorations in Economic History 48:3, 343–356

Bengtsson, T., Dribe, M., & Helgertz, J. (2020). ‘When did the health gradient emerge? Social class and adult mortality in southern Sweden, 1813–2015’, Demography 57:3, 953-977.

Cohn, S.K. (2018) Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Connor, D.S. (2017). ‘Poverty, religious differences, and child mortality in the early twentieth century: The case of Dublin’, Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107:3, 625–646.

Clouston, S.A.P., 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.

Clouston, S.A.P., Natale G. & Link, B.G. (2020). ‘Socioeconomic inequalities in the spread of coronavirus-19 in the United States: A examination of the emergence of social inequalities’. Social Science & Medicine, 268: 113554.

Clouston, S.A.P., & Link, B.G. (2021). ‘A retrospective on fundamental cause theory: State of the literature and goals for the future.’ Annual Review of Sociology 47, 131-156.

Corsini C.A. & Viazzo P.P. (eds.) (1997). The Decline of Infant and Child Mortality. The European Experience: 1750–1990. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.

Davenport, R., Satchell, M. & Shaw-Taylor L.M.M. (2018). ‘The geography of smallpox in England before vaccination: A conundrum resolved’, Social Science and Medicine 206, 75–85.

Dahlgren, G. & Whitehead, M. (2021). ‘The Dahlgren-Whitehead model of health determinants: 30 years on and still chasing rainbows’, Public Health 199, 20-24.

Deaton, A. (2015). The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Debiasi, E. (2020). The historical origins of the mortality gradient socioeconomic inequalities in adult mortality over two centuries in Sweden. Lund: Lund University.

Debiasi, E. & Dribe M. (2020). ‘SES inequalities in cause-specific adult mortality: a study of the long term trends using longitudinal individual data for Sweden (1813-2014)’. European Journal of Epidemiology, 35, 1043-1056.

Davenport, R.J., Satchell, M. & Shaw-Taylor, L.M.W. (2019). ‘Cholera as a ‘sanitary test’ of British cities, 1831–1866’, The History of the Family 24:2, 404–438.

Dobson, M. (2015). Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease. London: Quercus.

Dribe, M., & Karlsson, O. (2022). Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967. The Economic History Review, 75:2, p. 475-502.

Dyar, O., Hagelund, B., Melder, C., Skillington, T., Kristensons, M. & Sarkadi, A. (2022). ‘Rainbows over the world’s public health: determinants of health models in the past, present, and future’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 50, 1047–1058.

Ekamper, P. & Van Poppel F. (2019). ‘Infant mortality in mid-19th century Amsterdam: Religion, social class, and space’, Population, Space and Place 25:4), 1–21.

Hardy, A. (1993). The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine 1856–1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Houwaart, E.S. (1991). De Hygiënisten: Artsen, Staat & Volksgezondheid in Nederland 1840–1890. Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij.

Jaadla, H., Potter, E. Keibek, S. & Davenport R. (2020). ‘Infant and child mortality by socio-economic status in early nineteenth-century England’, Economic History Review 73:4, 991–1022.

Janssens, A. & Devos, I. (2022). ‘The Limits and Possibilities of Cause of Death Categorisation for Understanding Late Nineteenth Century Mortality’, Social History of Medicine 35:4, 1053–1063.

Janssens A. & Riswick T. (2023). ‘What was killing babies in Amsterdam? A study of infant mortality patterns using individual level cause-of-death data, 1856-1904’, Historical Life Course Studies 13, 235–264.

Link, B.G. & Phelan, J. (1995). ‘Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease’. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 80-94.

Mackenbach, J.P., Hu, Y., Artnik, B., Bopp, M., Costa, G., Kalediene, R., & Nusselder, W.J. (2017). ‘Trends in inequalities in mortality amenable to health care in 17 European countries’, Health Affairs 36:6, 1110-1118.

Mackenbach, J.P. (2020). A history of population health: rise and fall of disease in Europe. Leiden: Brill.

McKeown, T. (1976). The modern rise of population. London: Edward Arnold.

Mercer, A. (2014) Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition: A New Perspective. Rochester: University of Rochester Press.

Murkens, M. (2023) Unequal pathways to the grave? Time lags and inequalities in the Dutch health transition, the case of Maastricht, 1864-1955. Maastricht: Maastricht University.

Muurling, S., Riswick T. & Buzasi, K (2023), ‘The Last Nationwide Smallpox Epidemic in the Netherlands: Infectious Disease and Social Inequalities in Amsterdam, 1870-1872’, Social Science History 47:2, 189 – 216

Oldstone, M. (2010). Viruses, plagues, and history: past, present, and future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Omran, A.R. (1998). ‘The epidemiologic transition theory revisited thirty years later’, World health statistics quarterly 53, 99-119.

Ramiro Fariñas, D. & Oris, M. (eds.) (2016), New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition. Bern: Springer International Publishing.

Revuelta-Eugercios, B., Castenbrandt H. & Løkke, A. (2022). ‘Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881’, Social History of Medicine 35:4, 1116–1139.

Riley, J.C. (2001). Rising life expectancy. A global history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Riswick, T. (2021). ‘Enriching the HSN with individual causes of death: A database for a life-course analysis of victims and survivors’, Historical Life Course Studies 10, 34-40.

Riswick, T., Muurling, S. & Buzasi, K. (2022). ‘Exploring the mortality advantage of Jewish neighbourhoods in mid-19th century Amsterdam’, Demographic Research 46, 723–736.

Schenk, N., & Van Poppel F. (2011). ‘Social class, social mobility and mortality in the Netherlands, 1850–2004’, Explorations in Economic History 48:3, 401–417.

Snowden, F.M. (2020) Epidemics and Society From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Villefrance-Perner, L. (2024) Beyond the Grave. Danish Causes of Death 1829-1930. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.

Vögele, J., Rittershaus, L., & Schuler, K. (2021). ‘Epidemics and Pandemics–the Historical Perspective. Introduction’, Historical Social Research 33, 7-33.

Walhout, E. (2019). An infants’ graveyard? Region, religion, and infant mortality in North Brabant, 1840–1940. Tilburg: Tilburg University.

Walhout, E. and Beekink, E. (2021). ‘Just another crisis? Individual’s experience and the role of the local government and Church during the 1866 Cholera epidemic in a small Dutch town’, Historical Social Research Supplement 33: 54–78.

Walsh, D., McCartney, G., Collins, C., Taulbut, M. & Batty G.D. (2016) History, politics and vulnerability: explaining excess mortality in Scotland and Glasgow. Glasgow: Glasgow Centre for Population Health.

Watt, G. & Ecob, R. (1992). ‘Mortality in Glasgow and Edinburgh: a paradigm of inequality in health’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 46, 498-505.

Wolleswinkel-van den Bosch, J.H. (1998). The epidemiological transition in the Netherlands. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Zijdeman, R. & Ribeiro de Silva, F. (2014) ‘Life expectancy since 1820’, in: Van Zanden, J.L., Baten, J., Mira d’Ercole, M., Rijpma, A., Smith, C. & Timmer, M. (eds.). How was life? Global well-being since 1820. OECD Publishing.