[EQ] Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities

Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities

Hilary Graham, professor of Health Sciences at the University of York, UK. 

Open University Press,  September 2007

Publisher website: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335213693.html 

"....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...." Margaret Whitehead, WH Duncan Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK

• What is meant by health inequalities and socioeconomic inequalities?
• What evidence is there to support the link between socioeconomic status and health?
• Why do these links persist over time, between and within societies, and across people's lives?
• What part do policies play in the persistence of social and health inequalities?

Chapter 1 Health inequalities and inequities  available online PDF [18p.] at:
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335213696.pdf

".....Health inequalities can be cast as individual differences in health, differences in health between population groups and differences between groups linked to broader social inequalities. These definitions are distinguished by their focus on individuals (individual differences in health), the social groups to which individuals belong (health differences between population groups) and the unequal structures of which groups are part (health differences between unequal groups). The three concepts are used to describe within country inequalities: to capture health inequalities between individuals and groups living in the same country. They can also be applied to inequalities in health at the global level...."

 
 Content:
 Introduction
 
 Part 1: Key Terms
 Health inequalities and inequities
 Measures of health and health inequalities
 Socioeconomic inequalities
 Measures of socioeconomic position
 
 Part 2: Patterns of Unequal Health
 Health inequalities: global, national and historical
 Health inequalities across changes in disease
 
 Part 3: Understandings
 Social determinants of health and health inequalities
 Socioeconomic inequalities across generations: occupation and education
 Socioeconomic inequalities across generations: partnership and parenthood
 Health across unequal lives
 Unequal lives: policy matters

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham, H.M. [mailto:hmg501@york.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Prof Hilary Graham, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
email:hmg501@york.ac.uk www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/gsp/staff/hilarygraham.htm
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ISBN13: 9780335213696,
ISBN10: 0335213693

 

 

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