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Unequal health : how inequality contributes to health or illness / Grace Budrys.
LIBRA RA418 .B83 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Budrys, Grace, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Medical statistics.
- Health behavior.
- Health status indicators.
- Health Status Indicators.
- United States.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Status Indicators.
- United States.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 283 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2010]
- Summary:
- Unequal Health asks why some individuals are living longer and enjoying better health than others. By considering popular beliefs about the relevance of such factors as sex, race, poverty, and health habits, Grace Budrys moves beyond factors that receive a great deal of media attention-such as smoking, diet, exercise, and even genetic inheritance-and examines those factors that are far more difficult to identify and track, such as relative income and relative social status.
- Contents:
- The tools
- The causes of death
- Age and sex
- Race and poverty
- Lifestyle and health behavior
- Medical care
- Genes
- Stress
- Social inequality
- Population health
- Policy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742565067
- 0742565068
- 9780742565074
- 0742565076
- OCLC:
- 427608842
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