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