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Health inequality an introduction to concepts, theories and methods

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Language Publication details: Cambridge, UK Malden, MA, USA : Polity 2017Edition: 2nd edDescription: ix, 244 pages : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780745691091
  • 0745691099 (hardcover
  • 9780745691107
  • 0745691102
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Health inequalityDDC classification:
  • 362.1 BAR
Summary: Providing a key to understanding the four most widely accepted theories of what lies behind inequality in healthcare: behavioral, psychosocial, material and life-course approaches, this book looks beyond the figures to the social and biological processes that underlie them.
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Lending Books Lending Books Applied Sciences Library Lending Section Lending Collection 362.1 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available $ 73.40 112921
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What is social inequality? --
What is health inequality? --
Figuring out health inequality --
Explanatory models I : behavioural and 'cultural' explanations --
Explanatory models II : psycho-social factors --
Explanatory models III : materialist explanations --
Macro-social models --
Gender and inequality in health --
Ethnic inequalities in health --
Health inequality in the life course --
The way forward for research and policy debate

Providing a key to understanding the four most widely accepted theories of what lies behind inequality in healthcare: behavioral, psychosocial, material and life-course approaches, this book looks beyond the figures to the social and biological processes that underlie them.

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