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Vital signs : the deadly costs of health inequality / Lee Humber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humber, Lee, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--Health aspects.
- Social classes.
- Public health.
- Medical policy.
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Health Status Disparities.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- United Kingdom.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Healthcare Disparities.
- Health Status Disparities.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- United Kingdom.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 162 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Pluto Press, 2019.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Lee Humber is a health and social care academic and activist. He has contributed to numerous journals including Critical and Radical Social Work and Disability and Society. He is the author of Vital Signs: The Deadly Costs of Health Inequality (Pluto, 2019).
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Healthcare in the Age of Neoliberalism
- Mergers, Monopolies and the 'Rising Billions'
- The Social Determinants of Health
- The 'Inequality Thesis'
- Ageing Populations?
- Health, Power and Paradigms
- Legislating for Better Health?
- Who's WHO?
- The National Health Service : A Revolution Half Made?
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Humber, Lee. Vital signs.
- ISBN:
- 9781786804242
- 1786804247
- 9781786804259
- 1786804255
- 9781786804266
- 1786804263
- Publisher Number:
- 99985429095
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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