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Understanding health inequalities / edited by Hilary Graham.
Van Pelt Library RA418.3.G7 U53 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social status--Health aspects--Great Britain.
- Social status.
- People with social disabilities--Health and hygiene.
- People with social disabilities.
- Poor--Health and hygiene.
- Health status indicators.
- Great Britain.
- Health status indicators--Great Britain.
- Poor--Health and hygiene--Great Britain.
- Poor.
- People with social disabilities--Health and hygiene--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Understanding Health Inequalities turns the spotlight on a question at the heart of health and welfare policy. Why is there a social class gradient in health? How do socio-economic inequalities in life chances and living conditions take their toll on health? The book draws on UK research funded under the ESRC's Health Variations Program.
- Contents:
- 1 The challenge of health inequalities / Hilary Graham 3
- Part 1 Ethnicity, gender and socio-economic inequality
- 2 Ethnicity, health and the meaning of socio-economic position / George Davey Smith, Katharine Charlsey, Helen Lambert, Sheila Paul, Steve Fenton, Waqar Ahmad 25
- 3 Identity and structure: rethinking ethnic inequalities in health / Saffron Karlsen, James Y. Nazroo 38
- 4 Dimensions of inequality and the health of women / Mel Bartley, Amanda Sacker, David Firth, Ray Fitzpatrick 58
- Part 2 The influence of lifecourse and biography
- 5 Lifecourse influences on health in early old age / Lee Berney, David Blane, George Davey Smith, Paula Holland 79
- 6 Income and health over the lifecourse: evidence and policy implications / Michaela Benzeval, Andrew Dilnot, Ken Judge, Jayne Taylor 96
- 7 Barriers rooted in biography: how interpretations of family patterns of heart disease and early life experiences may undermine behavioural change in mid-life / Kate Hunt, Carol Emslie, Graham Watt 113
- Part 3 The influence of home and place
- 8 Housing tenure and health inequalities: a three-dimensional perspective on people, homes and neighbourhoods / Sally Macintyre, Rosemary Hiscock, Ade Kearns, Anne Ellaway 129
- 9 Putting health inequalities on the map: does where you live matter, and why? / Heather Joshi, Richard D. Wiggins, Mel Bartley, Richard Mitchell, Simon Gleave, Kevin Lynch 143
- 10 Understanding health inequalities: locating people in geographical and social spaces / Anthony Gatrell, Carol Thomas, Sharon Bennett, Lisa Bostock, Jennie Popay, Gareth Williams, Said Shahtahmasehi 156
- 11 Individual deprivation, neighbourhood and recovery from illness / Elspeth Graham, Malcolm MacLeod, Marie Johnston, Chris Dibben, Irene Morgan, Sylvie Briscoe 170
- 12 Housing wealth and community health: exploring the role of migration / Danny Dorling, Mary Shaw, Nicola Brimbecombe 186
- Part 4 Assessing policy impact
- 13 Researching the impact of public policy on inequalities in health / Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Bo Burstrom 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0335205542
- 0335205534
- OCLC:
- 43708680
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