The widening gap : : Health inequalities and policy in Britain /

The widening gap : : Health inequalities and policy in Britain / / Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, David Gordon, George Davey Smith.

Relentlessly, the wide health gap between different groups of people living in Britain continues to get even wider. This book presents new evidence (which was not available to the government's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health) on the size of the gap, and the extent to which the g...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
VerfasserIn:
Shaw, Mary,
Dorling, Daniel,
Gordon, David,
MitwirkendeR:
Townsend, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • The health gap
  • Explaining the gap
  • The widening gap
  • Narrowing the gap – the policy debate
  • References
  • Premature mortality, poverty and avoidable deaths for each parliamentary constituency in Britain by Member of Parliament and their Party (1991-95)
  • Technical details for estimating numbers living in poverty
  • Does the spatial distribution of social class explain geographical inequalities in health?
  • Index

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