Challenging health inequalities : : From Acheson to Choosing Health / / ed. by Elizabeth Dowler, Nick J. Spencer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Beresford, Peter,; Bradby, Hannah,; Bywaters, Paul,; Calnan, Michael,; Caraher, Martin,; Carpenter, Mick,; Chandola, Tarani,; Croft, Suzy,; Dolan, Alan,; Dorling, Danny,; Dowler, Elizabeth,; Drakeford, Mark,; Earwicker, Ray,; Law, Catherine,; Lester, Helen,; Lincoln, Paul,; McLeod, Eileen,; Ormandy, David,; Shaw, Mary,; Smith, George Davey,; Spencer, Nick,; Tritter, Jonathan,; Williams, Simon J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dowler, Elizabeth,; Spencer, Nick J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Health and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

This book offers a unique multi-disciplinary perspective on tackling health inequalities in a rich country, examining the New Labour policy agenda for tackling health inequalities and its inherent challenges. The book presents an overview of progress since the publication of the seminal and ambitious 1998 Acheson Inquiry into health inequalities, and the theoretical and methodological issues underpinning health inequalities. The contributors consider the determinants of inequality - for example, early childhood experience and ethnicity - the factors that mediate the relationship between determinants and health - nutrition, housing and health behaviour - and the sectoral policy interventions in user involvement, local area partnership working and social work. Challenging health inequalities offers a combination of broad analysis of progress from differing perspectives and will be key reading to academics, students and policy makers.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Progress in tackling health inequalities: a policy maker’s reflections -- Inequalities in mortality rates under New Labour -- Explaining inequalities in health: theoretical, conceptual and methodological agendas -- Inequalities in pregnancy and early years and the impact across the life course: progress and future challenges -- Inequalities and ethnicity: evidence and intervention -- Housing conditions and health -- Inequalities in food and nutrition: challenging ‘lifestyles’ -- Behaving badly? Smoking and the role of behaviour change in tackling health inequalities -- Health inequalities and user involvement -- Gilding the ghetto again? Community development approaches to tackling health inequalities -- A new agenda for social work: tackling inequalities in physical health -- Challenging health inequalities: themes and issues -- Index