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  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively ... Leer más

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  • How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health. It describes the destructive effects on health and health inequalities of neoliberal policies including labour market deregulation, welfare state retrenchment, and austerity, drawing on cross-national examples particularly from the United States ... Leer más

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  • Health in Hard Times

    Austerity and Health Inequalities

    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How has austerity impacted on health and wellbeing in the UK? Health in Hard Times explores its repercussions for social inequalities in health.The result of five years of research, the book draws on a case study of Stockton-on-Tees in the north-east of England, home to some of the starkest health divides. By placing individual and local experiences in ... Leer más

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  • Social Divisions

    Inequality and Diversity in Britain

    Revised, restructured and updated to reflect the latest data and debates, this new edition of the widely used, classic textbook offers students an accessible account of the major social divisions that structure social life. Written by internationally known sociologists and experts, the book:• addresses a wide range of social divisions and inequalities in novel ways, with added chapters on ... Leer más

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  • Social Determinants of Health

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Inequality and Wellbeing

    This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets.A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum of socioeconomic, cultural, living and working conditions, social and community networks and lifestyle ... Leer más

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  • Ageing and Health

    The Politics of Better Policies

    Series series European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
    One of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing populations create conflict between generations and crisis for health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is not so much demographic change as the political and policy challenge of creating fair, sustainable and effective policies for people of all ages. This book, ... Leer más

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  • Getting Better

    The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities

    Winner of the 2026 Richard Titmuss Book Award.Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues as the cost of living rises and other sources of inequity grow. What can be done to make ... Leer más

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  • Health Divides

    Where You Live Can Kill You

    de Clare Bambra ...
    HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE BMA BOOK AWARDS 2017Americans live three years less than their counterparts in France or Sweden. Scottish men survive two years less than English men. Across Europe, women in the poorest communities live up to ten years less than those in the richest. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates ... Leer más

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  • Work, Worklessness, and the Political Economy of Health

    de Clare Bambra ...
    We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy, epidemiology, geography and political science, this evidence-based inter-disciplinary book firmly challenges these contemporary orthodoxies. It systematically demonstrates that work - or lack of it - is central to our health and wellbeing and is ... Leer más

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  • Northern Exposure

    COVID-19 and Regional Inequalities in Health and Wealth

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic affected all parts of the country, it did not do so equally. Northern England was hit the hardest, exposing more than ever the extent of regional inequalities in health and wealth.Using original data analysis from a wide range of sources, this book demonstrates how COVID-19 has impacted the country unequally ... Leer más

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    COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

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  • AGEING SOCIETIES

    de Sarah Harper ...
    Demographic ageing is a reality - within 25 years half the population of Western Europe will be over 50, one quarter over 65, and the Less Developed Countries will contain one billion elderly people. Ageing Societies examines the myths, challenges and opportunities behind these figures.Ageing Societies explores three areas:§ the growing necessity for extending economic activity into later life ... Leer más

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