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The geography of health inequalities in the developed world : views from Britain and North America / edited by Paul Boyle ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical geography--Great Britain.
- Medical geography.
- Medical geography--North America.
- Social medicine--Great Britain.
- Social medicine.
- Health status indicators.
- Health services accessibility.
- Great Britain.
- Social medicine--North America.
- Health services accessibility--Great Britain.
- Health services accessibility--North America.
- Health status indicators--Great Britain.
- Health status indicators--North America.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
- 1 Health Geographies in the Developed World / Elspeth Graham, Paul Boyle, Sarah Curtis, Eric Moore 3
- Part I Historical Variations
- 2 The Origins of Social Class Mortality Differentials / Robert Woods 37
- 3 Locality-level MOrtality and Socio-economic Change in Britain since 1920: First Steps Towards Analysis of Infant Mortality Variation / Rita Mota de Campos, Peter Congdon, Sarah Curtis, Ian Gregory, Ian Rees Jones, Humphrey Southall 53
- 4 The Widening Gap
- Health Inequalities in Britain at the End of the Twentieth Century / Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, David Gordon, George Davey Smith 77
- Part II Contemporary Variations
- 5 Why is Mortality Higher in Unequal Societies? Interpreting Income Inequality and Mortality in Canada and the USA / Nancy Ross, Michael Wolfson, Jean-Marie Berthelot, James R. Dunn 103
- 6 Does Migration Exaggerate the Relationship between Deprivation and Self-reported Limiting Long-term Illness? / Paul Boyle, Oliver Duke-Williams 129
- 7 Measuring the Geographic Effects in a Model of Depression among the Elderly in Canada / Eric Moore, Mark W. Rosenberg, Corey Mackenzie 149
- 8 Local Geographies of Health Inequalities / Anthony Gatrell, Damon Berridge, Sharon Bennett, Lisa Bostock, Carol Thomas, Jennie Popay, Gareth Williams 177
- 9 The Relationship of Population Density, Postcode Sector Hectarage and Area Deprivation to Premature Mortality in Four Scottish Cities / Russell Ecob 199
- Part III Methods and Models
- 10 Evaluating the Absolute and Relative Income Hypotheses in an Exploratory Analysis of Deaths in the Health and Lifestyle Survey / Kelvyn Jones, Craig Duncan, Lizbeth Twigg 219
- 11 Identifying Area Effects on Health: A Comparison of Single- and Multi-level Models / Simon Gleave, Richard D. Wiggins, Heather Joshi, Kevin Lynch 245
- 12 The Effect of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Modelling the Distribution of Limiting Long-term Illness in Northern England / Alistair Geddes, Robin Flowerdew 267
- 13 Limiting Long-term Illness and Locality Deprivation in England and Wales: Acknowledging the 'Socio-spatial Context' / Paul Boyle, Anthony Gatrell, Oliver Duke-Williams 293
- 14 The Fallacy of the Equivalence of a Range of Household and Area-based Indicators of Material Resources in the Geography of Health Inequalities / Sally Macintyre, Rosemary Hiscock, Anne Ellaway, Ade Kearns 309
- Part IV Theoretical Dimensions
- 15 Combining the Social and the Spatial: Improving the Geography of Health Inequalities / Richard Mitchell, Mel Bartley, Mary Shaw 333
- 16 Siting Wealth and Illness: The Case of Recovery from Myocardial Infarction / Elspeth Graham, Malcolm MacLeod, Chris Dibben, Marie Johnston 351
- 17 From Recognition to Practice: Gradients, Inequality and the Social Geography of Health / Michael Hayes 371.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754613984
- OCLC:
- 51637887
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