Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: health and political engagement -- Health and inequality -- Health: definition and trends -- Defining political engagement -- The Finnish context -- Data -- Plan of the book -- References -- 2 Theoretical framework -- Previous research -- Health and political participation -- Health and ideology -- Disability and political participation -- Aggregate-level studies -- The current state of research -- A theoretical framework for connecting health and political engagement -- Resource theory -- Self-interest theory -- Theories of social context -- References -- 3 Health and political participation -- Introduction -- Health in the funnel model of political participation -- Theoretical expectations -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Health and political orientations -- Introduction -- Interest, efficacy and satisfaction with democracy -- Political trust and knowledge -- Left-right orientation -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Health and the social context -- Introduction -- Theoretical expectations -- Analysis -- Social networks, health and political engagement -- Collective identity, health and political engagement -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Health and political participation from a cross-national perspective -- Introduction -- Cross-national health gaps in political participation -- Estimations of health gaps in political participation -- Theoretical predictions: context, health and turnout inequality -- Compulsory voting -- Voting facilitation -- Party vs candidate-centred electoral systems -- Number of parties -- Share of left-wing parties -- Trade union density -- Economic inequality -- Explanatory analysis of cross-national health gaps in turnout -- Bivariate correlations