Unequal Health : : The Scandal of Our Times / / Danny Dorling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Dorling, Danny,
• MitwirkendeR: Subramanian, S.V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other affluent countries, inequalities in health are lower and people live longer. In his new book, academic and writer Danny Dorling describes the current extent of inequalities in health as the scandal of our times. He provides nine new chapters and updates a wide selection of his highly influential writings on health, including international-peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures, newspaper articles, and interview transcripts, to create an accessible collection that is both contemporary and authoritative. As a whole the book shows conclusively that inequalities in health are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the near future.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Sources of extracts -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- The long view -- Unequal health: why a scandal, and why now? -- The long view: from 1817 to 2012 -- The ghost of Christmas past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991 -- Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905–2005 -- Who cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law -- The liberal record -- Paving the way for ‘any willing provider’ to privatise the NHS -- Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress -- Closer to equality? Assessing New Labour’s record on health after 10 years in government -- Social harm and social policy in Britain -- Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007 -- Medicine and politics -- Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale -- Time for a smoke: one cigarette is equivalent to 11 minutes of life expectancy -- Private finance: ‘Select Committee’s report used parliamentary privilege unacceptably’ -- Government cover-ups: Labour’s ‘Black Report’ moment -- Putting the sick to work: the real Mental Health Bill -- Losing votes and voters: would action on inequality have saved New Labour? -- Mapping inequalities in Britain -- London’s political landscapes -- Despair and joy -- Preserving sanity when everything is related to everything else -- Suicide: the spatial and social components of despair in Britain, 1980–2000 -- How suicide rates have risen during periods of Conservative government, 1901–2000 -- The inequality hypothesis: thesis, antithesis and a synthesis -- Housing and identity: how place makes race -- Border controls? Here’s a long line of reasons to relax -- ‘Poor kids’, interview with Kerry O’Brien, Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- Global inequality -- Less suffering -- How do the other four fifths live? -- Global inequality of life expectancy due to AIDS -- Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere -- Mortality in relation to sex in the affluent world -- Anamorphosis, the geography of physicians, and mortality -- The global impact of income inequality on health by age: an observational study -- Wars, massacres and atrocities of the 20th century -- Re-evaluating self-evaluation. A commentary on Jen, Jones and Johnston -- America’s debt to the world -- Thinking, drawing and counting -- It’s the way that you do it -- Worldmapper: the human anatomy of a small planet -- Using statistics to describe and explore data -- Socio-demographic diversity and unexplained variation in death rates among the most deprived areas in Britain -- What if it were not the custard cream that did for them? -- Changing demographics and ageing populations -- Growing old gracefully -- Measuring the impact of major life events on happiness -- Roads, casualties and public health: the open sewers of the 21st century -- Tackling global health inequalities: closing the health gap in a generation -- How will we care for the centenarians of the future? -- We’re all ... just little bits of history repeating -- Future people and shifting power -- Looking on the bright side -- Index