Understanding Health Inequalities
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2009
241 pages
978-0-335-23958-0 (ISBN)
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Understanding Health Inequalities second edition provides an accessible and engaging exploration of why the opportunity to live a long and healthy life remains profoundly unequal.
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Hilary Graham
Understanding Health Inequalities
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08/2009
2nd Edition
Open University Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables and figures
- Introduction: the challenge of health inequalities. Hilary Graham
- Part 1 Health inequalities: understanding patterns over time and place
- 1.1 Life-course influences on children's futures. Catherine Law
- 1.2 Life-course influences on health at older ages. Mel Bartley and David Blane
- 1.3 Geographical inequalities in health over the last century. Danny Dorling and Bethan Thomas
- 1.4 Neighbourhood influences on health. Sally Macintyre and Anne Ellaway
- Part 2 Health inequalities: understanding intersections
- 2.1 Religion, ethnicity and health inequalities. Saffron Karlsen and James Nazroo
- 2.2 Negotiating ethnic identities and health. Karl Atkin
- 2.3 Gender and socio-economic inequalities in mortality and health behaviours: an overview. Kate Hunt and G. David Batty
- 2.4 Class cultures and the meaning of young motherhood. Naomi Rudoe and Rachel Thomson
- Part 3 Health inequalities: understanding policy impacts
- 3.1 Unequal consequences of ill health: researching the role of public policy. Margaret Whitehead, Barbara Hanratty and Bo Burström
- 3.2 Tackling health inequalities: the scope for policy. Hilary Graham
- Index
- Back cover
