Should health inequalities be addressed with healthy lifestyle promotion policies? An intersectional approach during and after crisis time

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  • Clàudia Pallisé Perelló

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Health Inequalities, Social Determinants of Health, Lifestyle Drift, Social Justice, COVID-19 Crisis

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Health inequalities caused by socioeconomic factors violate social justice principle. Therefore, policies in Public Health should try to eliminate them. Two main strategies aim to reduce health inequalities: the promotion of healthy lifestyles appealing to individuals (i) and the increasing of life standards for all the population (ii). Here I present why the former, broadly extended in West Europe under the lifestyle drift phenomenon, has severe limitations. In order to do so I will explore how socioeconomic determinants of health shape individual’s ability to adhere to healthy behaviours specially in the specific context that we are currently living (COVID-19 crisis) taking as a reference the Great Recession crisis of 2008.

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2020-11-02

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