TY - BOOK AU - Bartley,Mel TI - Health inequality : an introduction to concepts, theories and methods SN - 9780745691091 U1 - 362.1 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge, UK PB - Malden, MA, USA : Polity KW - Social medicine KW - Social classes KW - Health aspects KW - Health status indicators KW - Health Status Disparities KW - Models, Theoretical KW - Socioeconomic Factors N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -