Overview
- This open access book explicitly incorporates both the aspects of gender and family in the study of health
- Examines Europe as a whole and offers five country-specific studies conducted in Germany, Austria, and Italy
- Addresses different concepts of health and explores differences within countries by ethnic groups
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Country Specific Chapters
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About this book
This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes or focusing on health and mortality.
Coverage looks at new family and partnership forms among the young and middle-aged, their relationship with health, and the pathways through which they act. Among the old, lifelong family biography and present family situation are explored. Evidence is provided that partners advancing in age start to resemble each other more closely in terms of health, with the health of the partner being a crucial factor of an individual’s own health. Gender-specific health outcomes and pathways are central in the designs of the studies and the discussion of the results. The book compares twelve European countries reflecting different welfare state regimes and offers country-specific studies conducted in Austria, Germany, Italy - all populations which have received less attention in the past - and Sweden. As a result, readers discover the role of different concepts of family and health as well as comparisons within European countries and ethnic groups.It will be an insightful resource for students, academics, policy makers, and researchers that will help define future research in terms of gender and public health.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jordi Guma holds a PhD in Demography, Autonomous University of Barcelona. He also studied a Bachelor in Statistics (UAB), Degree in Marketing (UOC), Master in Territorial and Population Studies (UAB), student of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) conducted jointly by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research de Rostock (Germany) and the Centre for Economic Demography of the Lund University (Sweden).
Currently his main research interest is in family as a social determinant of health inequities in Europe from a gender perspective. His PhD thesis is titled “Family and Subjective health in Spain. A demographic approach”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
Editors: Gabriele Doblhammer, Jordi Gumà
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72356-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72355-6Published: 22 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89175-0Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72356-3Published: 12 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Public Health, Gender Studies, Epidemiology