Health inequalities : : Lifecourse approaches / / ed. by George Davey Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Ben-Shlomo, Yoav,; Blane, David,; Bonnett, Brenda,; Carroll, Douglas,; Chaturvedi, Nish,; Dorling, Daniel,; Ebrahim, Shah,; Egger, Matthias,; Elwood, Peter,; Frankel, Stephen,; Gillis, Charles,; Gordon, David,; Greenwood, Rosemary,; Gunnell, David,; Harding, Seeromanie,; Hart, Carole,; Hawthorne, Victor,; Hole, David,; Kuh, Diana,; Leon, David,; MacKinnon, Pauline,; McCarron, Peter,; McEwen, James,; Mitchell, Richard,; Nazroo, James,; Neaton, James D.,; Okasha, Mona,; Orford, Scott,; Rankin, Sandra,; Rose, Geoffrey,; Rowan, David,; Shaw, Mary,; Shipley, Martin J.,; Smith, George Davey,; Stamler, Jeremiah,; Stamler, Rose,; Sweetnam, Peter,; Upton, Mark,; Watt, Graham,; Wentworth, Deborah,; Whitley, Elise,; Williams, Rory,; Yarnell, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Davey Smith, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

The lifecourse perspective on adult health and on health inequalities in particular, is one of the most important recent developments in epidemiology and public health. This book brings together, in a single volume, the work of one of the most distinguished academics in the field. It is the first to specifically take a lifecourse approach to health inequalities and will be essential reading for academics, students and policy makers with an interest in public health, epidemiology, health promotion and social policy.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of co-authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: lifecourse approaches to health inequalities -- Patterns of health inequality -- Health inequalities in Britain: continuing increases up to the end of the 20th century -- Shrinking areas and mortality -- Population change and mortality in men and women -- Area-based measures of social and economic circumstances: cause-specific mortality patterns depend on the choice of index -- Socioeconomic differentials in mortality risk among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: Part I – results for 300,685 white men -- Socioeconomic differentials in mortality risk among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: Part II – results for 20,224 black men -- Individual social class, area-based deprivation, cardiovascular disease risk-factors and mortality: the Renfrew and Paisley study -- Is control at work the key to socioeconomic gradients in mortality? -- Voting and mortality -- “I’m all right, John”: voting patterns and mortality in England and Wales, 1981-92 -- Association between voting patterns and mortality remains -- Analysis of trends in premature mortality by Labour voting in the 1997 General Election -- The Whitehall Study -- Magnitude and causes of socioeconomic differentials in mortality: further evidence from the Whitehall Study -- Confounding of occupation and smoking: its magnitude and consequences -- Socioeconomic differentials in cancer among men -- Health and lifetime social circumstances: the Collaborative Study -- Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study -- Education and occupational social class: which is the more important indicator of mortality risk? -- Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood and cause-specific adult mortality: prospective observational study -- Socioeconomic factors as determinants of mortality -- Lifecourse socioeconomic and behavioural influences on cardiovascular disease mortality: the Collaborative Study -- Further lifecourse influences on health -- Social circumstances in childhood and cardiovascular disease mortality: prospective observational study of Glasgow University students -- Childhood socioeconomic position and adult cardiovascular mortality: the Boyd Orr cohort -- Height and risk of death among men and women: aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality -- Leg length, insulin resistance, and coronary heart disease risk: the Caerphilly Study -- Ethnicity and health inequalities -- Ethnic inequalities in health: a review of UK epidemiological evidence -- Learning to live with complexity: ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and health in Britain and the US -- Mortality differentials between black and white men in the US: contribution of income and other risk factors among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) -- Diversions -- Socioeconomic differentials in the mortality of pets: probably reflect the same differences in material circumstances as in their owners -- Death in Hollywood: life-style excess, social comparisons or publication bias? -- Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly Cohort Study -- Health, health services and health politics in Britain: 1952-2002-2052 -- Health inequalities – past and present -- Socioeconomic differentials in mortality: evidence from Glasgow graveyards -- The ghost of Christmas past: the health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991 -- Does early nutrition affect later health? Views from the 1930s and 1980s -- Social inequality and population health -- Income inequality and mortality: why are they related? -- Understanding it all: health, meta-theories, and mortality trends -- Reducing health inequalities, now and in the future -- The widening health gap: what are the solutions? -- Inequalities in health: what is happening and what can be done? -- How policy informs the evidence – ‘evidence-based’ thinking can lead to debased policy making -- Rationing for health equity: is it necessary? -- Afterword: Still wanting to be James Dean -- Index