30222

SoSe 20: Social Inequalities and Health

Julia Maria Lisa Tuppat

Information for students

Important: This course will take place as an Online-Course. It will be taught using both synchronous and asynchronous teaching formats.
Detailed information will be made available by the lecturer via Blackboard after the enrollment on Campus Management.
If you don’t have access to Campus Management or Blackboard but want to partake in the course, please write an e-mail to the lecturer.
Current Information about changes related to COVID-19 can be viewed at the Institute’s Website. close

Comments

The term “health inequality” refers to systematic differences in the health status, health behaviour and access to health resources between different population groups. Although the degree of these inequalities varies notably between countries, health inequalities exist in all societies: The lower an individual’s socio-economic position, the higher their risk of poor health and the lower their life expectancy is on average.
In this course, students will learn about key concepts and theories in research on health inequality as well as about the relevant methodological approaches widely used in empirical investigations in this field.
Focus is set on vertical inequalities of socio-economic position in the adult population, but we will also be concerned with horizontal dimensions, such as gender and migration. The course will be structured in three parts, focussing on the following questions: (1) How can we define and measure health inequality? (2) How does health inequality relate to the broader phenomenon of social inequality? (3) How can we explain health inequalities within and between (European) societies?
The seminar will cover relevant sociological theories of health and illness, but will also draw upon theories from neighbouring disciplines such as social epidemiology and social psychology. close