Understanding Health Inequalities Author:Hilary Graham 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 drawing on UK research funded under the... more » ESRC's Health Variations Program. The authors - at the forefront of research in their field - focus in issues which hold the key to explaining and reducing health inequalities.
Separate sections of the book focus on; ethnicity, gender and socio-economic status; and how health is shaped by experiences and exposures over the life course; how our home and neighborhood may have an additional influence on 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« less