Scientific symposium: Health inequalities in modern welfare states. Do we understand present trends?
Life expectancy has been growing in the modern world, but this development is unequally shared. Health inequalities, measured as differences in life expectancy between segments of the population in a country, are large and seem to be growing steadily. This is equally the case for modern welfare states with advanced systems for social protection, such as the Nordic states, where life expectancy differences between educational groups have been growing for more than three decades.Leading researchers, like Sir Michael Marmot, Johan Mackenbach, Clare Bambra and Pekka Martikainen, will share new
