Unequal Lives Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities 1st Edition by Hilary Graham 0335233864 9780335233861

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ISBN 10: 0335233864 

ISBN 13: 9780335233861

Author: Hilary Graham

“With the compelling evidence that more redistributive universal welfare benefits and education provide the main escalator to reducing inequalities, this is a timely and thought-provoking book for all those concerned to reduce our societies’ embedded structural inequalities, cumulative disadvantages and health inequalities.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health “Unequal Lives is the book that we have all been waiting for. In this skilfully crafted volume, Hilary Graham makes the vital connection between health inequalities and social inequalities in a way that opens up new understandings of both concepts and consequences for policy. Scholarly yet accessible, this is a ‘must read’ book for researchers, policymakers and practitioners alike.” Margaret Whitehead, WH Duncan Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK What is meant by health inequalities and socioeconomic inequalities? What evidence is there to support the link between socioeconomic status and health? Why do these links persist over time, between and within societies, and across people’s lives? What part do policies play in the persistence of social and health inequalities?Unequal Lives provides an evidence-based introduction to social and health inequalities. It brings together research from social epidemiology, sociology and social policy to guide the reader to an understanding of why people’s lives and people’s health remain so unequal, even in rich societies where there is more than enough for all. The book introduces the non-specialist to key concepts like health inequalities and health inequities, social class and socioeconomic position, social determinants and life course, as well as to the key indicators of health and socioeconomic position. It provides a wealth of evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in health at both national and global level, and explores how these inequalities persist as countries industrialise, patterns of employment and family life change, and chronic diseases emerge as the big killers. Consideration is given to policy and its impact on inequalities within the UK, Europe and beyond and an assessment made of health inequalities throughout the life. This new book from best selling author Hilary Graham is of particular interest to students in sociology, social policy, health studies, health promotion and public health as well as to social work and community nursing students and those working in the health and welfare fields.

Table of contents:

Part 1
1 Health inequalities and inequities
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What are health inequalities?
1.3 What are health inequities?
1.4 Conclusions

2 Measuring health and health inequalities
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Measuring health: mortality-based measures
2.3 Measuring health: measures based on people’s assessment of their health status
2.4 Measuring health: measures of development and decline
2.5 Measuring health inequalities
2.6 Conclusions

3 Socio-economic inequalities
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Researching socio-economic inequalities
3.3 Socio-economic position as a structural location
3.4 Socio-economic position as actively produced
3.5 Childhood and parenting
3.6 Conclusions

4 Measuring socio-economic position
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Measurement of socio-economic position
4.3 Measures of socio-economic position
4.4 Conclusions

Part 2
5 Health inequalities: global, national and historical
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Global health inequalities
5.3 Socio-economic inequalities in health within countries
5.4 Socio-economic in health over time
5.5 Conclusions

6 Health inequalities across changes in disease
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Socio-economic inequalities in health across changes in causes of death
6.3 Social patterning of risk factors for chronic disease
6.4 Conclusions

Part 3
7 Social determinants of health and health inequalities
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The emerging focus on social determinants
7.3 Models of the social determinants of health
7.4 Social position as a key determinant of health
7.5 Conclusions

8 Socio-economic inequalities across generations: occupation and education
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Changes in the labour market
8.3 Class origins and class destinations: Inequalities across generations
8.4 Class Inequalities in educational trajectories
8.5 Class inequalities in educational opportunities
8.6 Conclusions

9 Socio-economic inequalities across people’s lives: partnership and parenthood
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Partnership, parenthood and adult socio-economic position
9.3 Widening inequalities in domestic trajectories
9.4 Young motherhood
9.5 Conclusions

10 Health across unequal lives
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The socio-economic life course and health
10.3 Socio-economic inequalities in developmental health
10.4 Socio-economic inequalities in functional ageing
10.5 Conclusions

11 Unequal lives: policy matters
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Policy approaches to tackling health inequalities
11.3 Welfare systems and socio-economic inequalities
11.4 Widening income inequalities
11.5 Conclusions

Concluding Comment

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