Understanding health inequalities /
Presents an exploration of why the opportunity to live a long and healthy life remains profoundly unequal. This book tackles such questions as: How health is influenced by circumstances across people's lives and by the areas in which they live? And how health is simultaneously shaped by inequal...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Maidenhead :
McGraw-Hill : Open University Press,
2009
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Presents an exploration of why the opportunity to live a long and healthy life remains profoundly unequal. This book tackles such questions as: How health is influenced by circumstances across people's lives and by the areas in which they live? And how health is simultaneously shaped by inequalities of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic position? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0335239587 9780335239580 6613338346 9786613338341 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
