Abstract

TREACY, Mariano. Social Determinants of Health in the Neoliberal Phase: An Approach on Inequalities from a Perspective of Political Economics. Ens. Econ. [online]. 2021, vol.31, n.58, pp.134-157.  Epub July 16, 2021. ISSN 0121-117X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ede.v31n58.89606.

Social determinants explain most of the disparities in health. One of the main determinants identified by the World Health Organization is uneven distribution of income. In this article the aim is to identify, in the framework of the social determinants of health, those associated with systemic and long-term trends of the propagation of uneven distribution of income and wealth. This subject matter is approached from a political economics perspective, which allows us to visualize macro-social tendencies that shape the social determinants of health. In the last decades, in the framework of the spread of neoliberalism on a global scale, sanitary inequities have grown deeper parallel to the increase in the income gap among developed and emerging countries and, within these, among the sectors with highest income and those with the lowest. In Argentina this has translated into a process of productive disintegration and a job market more and more fragmented and exclusionary, with negative effects on all health inequities.

JEL: I14, I15, I18, I19, P16

Keywords : political economics; neoliberalism; inequality; socio-economic factors; disparities in the state of health; social inequity.

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