Understanding Health Inequalities

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 Variations 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 * 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.

Medical Books

Graham,Hilary

Administration & Medicine Economics

Open University Press

Examining why there is a social class gradient in health, this study draws on UK research to focus on issues which hold the key to explaining and reducing health inequalities.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Open Univ Pr

"With the compelling evidence that more redistributive universal welfare benefits and education provide the main escalator to reducing inequalities, this is a timely and thought-provoking book for all those concerned to reduce our societies’ embedded structural inequalities, cumulative disadvantages and health inequalities." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health "Unequal Lives is the book that we have all been waiting for. In this skilfully crafted volume, Hilary Graham makes the vital connection between health inequalities and social inequalities in a way that opens up new understandings of both concepts and consequences for policy. Scholarly yet accessible, this is a 'must read' book for researchers, policymakers and practitioners alike." Margaret Whitehead, WH Duncan Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK
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<li>What is meant by health inequalities and socioeconomic inequalities? </li>
<li>What evidence is there to support the link between socioeconomic status and health? </li>
<li>Why do these links persist over time, between and within societies, and across people’s lives? </li>
<li>What part do policies play in the persistence of social and health inequalities?</li>
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Unequal Lives provides an evidence-based introduction to social and health inequalities. It brings together research from social epidemiology, sociology and social policy to guide the reader to an understanding of why people’s lives and people’s health remain so unequal, even in rich societies where there is more than enough for all. The book introduces the non-specialist to key concepts like health inequalities and health inequities, social class and socioeconomic position, social determinants and life course, as well as to the key indicators of health and socioeconomic position. 
 It provides a wealth of evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in health at both national and global level, and explores how these inequalities persist as countries industrialise, patterns of employment and family life change, and chronic diseases emerge as the big killers.
 Consideration is given to policy and its impact on inequalities within the UK, Europe and beyond and an assessment made of health inequalities throughout the life.
 This new book from best selling author Hilary Graham is of particular interest to students in sociology, social policy, health studies, health promotion and public health as well as to social work and community nursing students and those working in the health and welfare fields.

Unequal Lives: Health and Socio-economic Inequalities

Women, Health and the Family

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Salem House Academic Division

Women, health, and the family

Distributed by Harvester Press

This text examines the domestic circumstances and responsibilities of women caring for children in Britain in the context of social trends that are making poverty and hardship increasingly common experiences for mothers. The book is set against the social and intellectual trends of the last decade and the major shifts in feminist research which have occurred in this period. In particular, Hilary Graham moves away from looking as "women" as a homogenous group towards perspectives which recognize how social division of class, race, disability and sexuality, as well as those of gender, mediate the experiences of caring for health in families.

Hardship and health in women's lives

Politics & Government

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

Hardship & Health Womens Lives

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Hardship & Health Women's Lives

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

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