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Who benefits from social investment? The gendered effects of family and employment policies on cardiovascular disease in Europe.

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BACKGROUND:In the context of fiscal austerity in many European welfare states, policy innovation often takes the form of 'social investment', a contested set of policies aimed at strengthening labour markets. Social investment policies include employment subsidies, skills training and job-finding services, early childhood education and childcare and parental leave. Given that such policies can influence gender equity in the labour market, we analysed the possible effects of such policies on gender health equity. METHODS:Using age-stratified and sex-stratified data from the Global Burden of Disease Study on cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality between 2005 and 2010, we estimated linear regression models of policy indicators on employment supports, childcare and parental leave with country fixed effects. FINDINGS:We found mixed effects of social investment for men versus women. Whereas government spending on early childhood education and childcare was associated with lower CVD mortality rates for both men and women equally, government spending on paid parental leave was more strongly associated with lower CVD mortality rates for women. Additionally, government spending on public employment services was associated with lower CVD mortality rates for men but was not significant for women, while government spending on employment training was associated with lower CVD mortality rates for women but was not significant for men. CONCLUSIONS:Social investment policies were negatively associated with CVD mortality, but the ameliorative effects of specific policies were gendered. We discuss the implications of these results for the European social investment policy turn and for future research on gender health equity.

journal_name

J Epidemiol Community Health

journal_title

Journal of epidemiology and community health

authors

Morris KA,Beckfield J,Bambra C

doi

10.1136/jech-2018-211283

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-03-01 00:00:00

pages

206-213

issue

eissn

0143-005X

issn

1470-2738

pii

jech-2018-211283

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Who benefits from social investment? The gendered effects of family and employment policies on cardiovascular disease in Europe.