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Understanding Health Inequalities
Understanding Health Inequalities
Author: Hilary Graham
"Thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of Understanding Health Inequalities, edited by Hilary Graham, remains a welcome and timely contribution. Replete with thoughtful essays on health inequities analyzed in relation to societal structure, social position and geography ... the volume provides important insights into how ...  more »

Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health, USA Understanding Health Inequalities second edition provides an accessible and engaging exploration of why the opportunity to live a long and healthy life remains profoundly unequal. Hilary Graham and her contributors outline the enduring link between people?s socioeconomic circumstances and their health and tackle questions at the forefront of research and policy on health inequalities. These include:
  • How health is influenced by circumstances across people's lives and by the areas in which they live
  • How health is simultaneously shaped by inequalities of gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic position
  • How policies can impact on health inequalities
All the chapters have been specially written for the new edition by internationally-recognised researchers in social and health inequalities. The book provides an authoritative guide to these fields as well as presenting new research. Contributors

Karl Atkin, Mel Bartley, G. David Batty, David Blane, Bo Burström, Danny Dorling, Anne Ellaway, Hilary Graham, Barbara Hanratty, Kate Hunt, Saffron Karlsen, Catherine Law, Sally Macintyre, James Nazroo, Naomi Rudoe, Bethan Thomas, Rachel Thomson, Margaret Whitehead
ISBN-13: 9780335234592
ISBN-10: 0335234593
Publication Date: 8/1/2009
Pages: 248
Edition: 2
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Publisher: Open University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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