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The book introduces the non-specialist to key concepts like health inequalities and health inequities, social class and socioeconomic position, social determinants and life course, as well as to the key indicators of health and socioeconomic position.

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Full title :EBOOK.

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Publication Date:©2007.

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Publisher(s):McGraw-Hill Education
Place of Publication:Buckingham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

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Description:1 online resource (237 pages).

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ISBN:9780335233861, 0335233864
oclc:on1371446197
LC Classification:RA418.3.G7 -- G73 2007eb
Dewey Decimal:362.1042

Frontcover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1 Health inequalities and inequities -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What are health inequalities? -- 1.3 What are health inequities? -- 1.4 Conclusions -- 2 Measuring health and health inequalities -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Measuring health: mortality-based measures -- 2.3 Measuring health: measures based on people's assessment of their health status -- 2.4 Measuring health: measures of development and decline -- 2.5 Measuring health inequalities -- 2.6 Conclusions -- 3 Socio-economic inequalities -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Researching socio-economic inequalities -- 3.3 Socio-economic position as a structural location -- 3.4 Socio-economic position as actively produced -- 3.5 Childhood and parenting -- 3.6 Conclusions -- 4 Measuring socio-economic position -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Measurement of socio-economic position -- 4.3 Measures of socio-economic position -- 4.4 Conclusions -- Part 2 -- 5 Health inequalities: global, national and historical -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Global health inequalities -- 5.3 Socio-economic inequalities in health within countr…