HLTC02H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - Welfare state and health care.docx
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Lecture 9- welfare state and health care week of march 13th, 2012. Impact of welfare state on the health and social well-being of women. Overview: impact of different welfare states on the quality of life (health?) of women and indicators of women"s quality of life. Globalization and the decline of social reform into the twenty-first century, aurora, on. Ranking of welfare state by political economy: 1)esping-andersen"s welfare state regimes: political economy perspective, approach towards each dimension reflects the dominant ideology that is liberal, socio- democratic, and conservative. Socio-democratic ( includes sweden, norway, denmark and finland) Conservative (includes germany, france, italy, switzerland, netherlands and portugal) welfare states. Out of these, socio-democratic welfare states are the most generous, then come conservative welfare states and the liberal welfare states are the least generous. Esping- andersen"s typology of welfare state ii : liberal welfare states. Means-tested assistance, have modest universal transfer and modest social-insurance plans.
