Wiley John & Sons Jan 2004, 2004. Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware-This book
provides all you ever wanted to know about health inequality but did not dare to ask. We …

The burden of ill health and the blessing of good health are unequally distributed in society.
The lower strata-those with hard jobs, modest wages and low education-have higher …

In this glossary, the authors address eight key questions pertinent to health inequalities:(1)
What is the distinction between health inequality and health inequity?;(2) Should we assess …

The impact of inequality on health is gaining more attention as public and political concern
grows over increasing inequality. The income inequality hypothesis, which holds that …

W illiam Farr's insight into the nonrandom na-ture of health variations between nationstates
is as valid at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was in the mid-nineteenth century …

Social inequalities are a proper concern of epidemiology. Epidemiological thinking and
modes of analysis are central, but epidemiological research is one among many areas of …

Life expectancy has always differed according to status in society, with a higher mortality
among those of lower social status. Although cancer and cardiovascular diseases are more …

This chapter seeks to focus on:(1) what we have learned from studies of socioeconomic
inequalities in health at the levels of individuals, communities, and societies,(2) whether and …

Objectives To examine existing definitions of health and health inequalities and to
synthesise the most useful of these using explicit rationale and the most parsimonious text …

Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour
government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most …