Understanding Health Inequalities
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Understanding Health Inequalities

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"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 tackles the questions of why and how by drawing on UK research funded under the ESRC's Health Variation Programme. The authors - at the forefront of research in their field - focus on issues which hold the key to explaining and reducing health inequalities. Separate sections of the book focus on: ethnicity, gender and socio-economic status; how health is shaped by experiences and exposures over the lifecourse; and how our home and neighbourhood may have an additional influence on our health. A fourth theme - that of policy development and policy impact - runs through these sections and is explicitly addressed in the concluding chapter. Written with the student and practitioner in mind, "Understanding Health Inequalities" is designed to make cutting-edge research on health inequalities accessible to both the academic and policy communities.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: the challenge of health inequalities. Ethnicity, gender and socio-economic inequality: ethnicity, health and the meaning of socio-economic position; identity and structure - re-thinking ethnic inequalities in health; dimensions of inequality and the health of women. The influence of lifecourse and biography: lifecourse influences on health in early old age; income and health over the lifecourse - evidence and policy implications; barriers rooted in biography - how interpretations of family patterns of heart disease and early life experiences may undermine behavioural change in mid-life. The influence of home and place: housing tenure and health inequalities - a three dimensional perspective on people, homes and neighbourhoods; putting health inequalities on the map - does where you live matter and why? understanding health inequalities - locating people in geographical and social spaces; individual deprivation, neighbourhood and recovery from illness; housing wealth and community health - exploring the role of migration. Assessing policy impact: researching the impact of public policy on inequalities in health.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780335205547
  • Publisher: Open University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Open University Press
  • Height: 236 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0335205542
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 390 gr


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