Understanding Health Inequalities

241 Pages·2009·3.169 MB·English

by  Hilary Graham

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Understanding
Health Inequalities
Second Edition

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Understanding
Health Inequalities
Second Edition
Edited by Hilary Graham

Open University Press
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Contents
Listofcontributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Listoftablesandfigures xi
Introduction:thechallengeofhealthinequalities 1
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Part 1: Health inequalities: understanding patterns
over time and place
1.1 Life-courseinfluencesonchildren’sfutures 25
CatherineLaw
1.2 Life-courseinfluencesonhealthatolderages 48
MelBartleyandD avidBlane
1.3 Geographicalinequalitiesinhealthoverthelast
century 66
DannyDorlingandBethanThomas
1.4 Neighbourhoodinfluencesonhealth 84
SallyMacintyreandAnneEllaway
Part 2: Health inequalities: understanding
intersections
2.1 Religion,ethnicityandhealthinequalities 103
SaffronKarlsenandJamesNazroo
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2.2 Negotiatingethnicidentitiesandhealth 125
KarlAtkin
2.3 Genderandsocio-economicinequalitiesinmortality
andhealthbehaviours:anoverview 141
KateHuntandG.DavidBatty
2.4 Classculturesandthemeaningofyoung
motherhood 162
NaomiRudoeandRachelThomson
Part 3: Health inequalities: understanding
policy impacts
3.1 Unequalconsequencesofillhealth:researchingthe
roleofpublicpolicy 181
MargaretWhitehead,BarbaraHanrattyandBoBurström
3.2 Tacklinghealthinequalities:thescopeforpolicy 199
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Index 219
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List of contributors
KarlAtkin,SeniorLecturer,DepartmentofHealthSciences,University
ofYork.
MelBartley,ProfessorofMedicalSociology,Departmentof
EpidemiologyandPublicHealth,UniversityCollegeLondon.
G.DavidBatty,WellcomeTrustResearchFellow,MRCSocialand
PublicHealthSciencesUnit,UniversityofGlasgow.
DavidBlane,ProfessorofMedicalSociology,DivisionofEpidemiology,
PublicHealthandPrimaryCare,ImperialCollegeLondon.
BoBurström,ProfessorinSocialMedicine,DepartmentofPublic
HealthSciences,KarolinskaInstitute,Stockholm.
DannyDorling,ProfessorofHumanGeography,SocialandSpatial
InequalitiesGroup,DepartmentofGeography,Universityof
Sheffield.
AnneEllaway,SeniorResearchScientist,MRCSocialandPublicHealth
SciencesUnit,UniversityofGlasgow.
HilaryGraham,Profe ssorofHealthSciences,DepartmentofHealth
Sciences,UniversityofYork.
BarbaraHanratty,SeniorLecturerinPopulationandCommunity
Health,DivisionofPublicHealth,UniversityofLiverpool.
KateHunt,ProfessorandHeadofGenderandHealthProgramme,
MRCSocialandPublicHealthSciencesUnit,UniversityofGlasgow.
SaffronKarlsen,SeniorResearchFellow,DepartmentofEpidemiology
andPublicHealth,UniversityCollegeLondon.
CatherineLaw,ProfessorofPublicHealthandEpidemiology,Centre
forPaediatricEpidemiologyandBiostatistics,UCLInstituteofChild
Health,London.
SallyMacintyre,ProfessorofSocialandPublicHealthScience,
UniversityofGlasgow,andHonoraryDirector,MRCSocialand
PublicHealthSciencesUnit.
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JamesNazroo,ProfessorofSociology,SchoolofSocialSciences,
UniversityofManchester.
NaomiRudoe,ResearchStudent,FacultyofEducationandLanguage
Studies,TheOpenUniversity.
BethanThomas,Researcher,SocialandSpatialInequalitiesGroup,
DepartmentofGeography,UniversityofSheffield.
RachelThomson,ProfessorofSocialResearch,FacultyofHealthand
SocialCare,TheOpenUniversity.
MargaretWhitehead,WHDuncanProfessorofPublicHealth,
DivisionofPublicHealth,UniversityofLiverpool.
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Acknowledgements
This new edition of Understanding Health Inequalities presents 11 new
chapters by authors at the forefront of research on social and health
inequalities.Itincludesauthorswhocontributedtothefirsteditionofthe
book published in 2000. The book’s authorship has also been extended
for the new edition to give emphasis to the intersections between socio-
economic inequality and other dimensions of inequality and identity,
includingage,gender,ethnicityandreligion.
IwouldliketothankSallyStephenson,UniversityofYork,forherhelp
withthepreparationofthemanuscript.
HilaryGraham

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