Health inequality

Bartley, Mel

Health inequality an introduction to concepts, theories and methods - 2nd ed. - Cambridge, UK Malden, MA, USA : Polity 2017 - ix, 244 pages : 23 cm

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.

9780745691091 0745691099 (hardcover 9780745691107 0745691102


Social medicine.
Social classes--Health aspects.
Health status indicators.
Health Status Disparities
Models, Theoretical
Socioeconomic Factors

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