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Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / Richard Wilkinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, Richard G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Income distribution--Health aspects.
- Income distribution.
- Equality--Health aspects.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Among developed countries it is not the richest societies that have the best health, but those that have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Why? This book shows that social cohesion is crucial to the quality of life.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the social economy of health; Health becomes a social science; Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition; The problem of health inequalities; Income distribution and health; A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan; An anthropology of social cohesion; The symptoms of disintegration; The psychosocial causes of illness; Baboons, civil servants and children's height; Social capital: putting Humpty together again
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1134872798
- 1134872801
- 128033659
- 9786610336579
- 0-203-42168-X
- 9780203421680
- OCLC:
- 437082738
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