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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Other Authors: Graham, Hilary (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill : Open University Press, 2009
Edition:Second edition.
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505 0 |a Introduction: the challenge of health inequalities / Hilary Graham -- Part 1. Health inequalities: understanding patterns over time and place. Life-course influences on children's futures / Catherine Law -- Life-course influences on health at older ages / Mel Bartley and David Blane -- Geographical inequalities in health over the last century / Danny Dorling and Bethan Thomas -- Neighbourhood influences on health / Sally Macintyre and Anne Ellaway -- Part 2. Health inequalities: understanding intersections. Religion, ethnicity and health inequalities / Saffron Karlsen and James Nazroo -- Negotiating ethnic identities and health / Karl Atkin -- Gender and socio-economic inequalities in mortality and health behaviours: an overview / Kate Hunt and G. David Batty -- Class cultures and the meaning of young motherhood / Naomi Rudoe and Rachel Thomson -- Part 3. Health inequalities: understanding policy impacts. Unequal consequences of ill health: researching the role of public policy / Margaret Whitehead, Barbara Hanratty and Bo Burström -- Tackling health inequalities: the scope for policy / Hilary Graham. 
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