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This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social, economic and political inequality. Complementing a traditional public health approach, the book moves beyond a focus on categories of morbidity and their structural causes. Instead, it focuses on everyday understandings and actions for people living in unequal social conditions. Making use of a variety of case studies related to physical and mental health, the authors emphasise interpersonal relationships, biographical meanings and the daily tactics of âgetting byâ. These are recurrently linked to the social-structural aspects of particular times and places.

The book:

  • Draws upon, applies and extends the biopsychosocial approach, which is well known to students of public health.
  • Respects and gives due weight to the experience in context of people who live with health inequalities, in domestic and local settings.
  • Explores notions of per

    Table of Contents

    Preface

    1.People who need people: A relational approach to living with inequalities

    2.Living in the middle and living optimally

    3.Feed the poor, eat the rich: Ingestion and inequality

    4.Takes your breath away: Inequalities in respiratory health

    5.Running up that hill: Living unequally with the meaning of sport and exercise

    6.Ordinary distress and loneliness

    7.Normal and abnormal suffering

    8.Tired of living and scared of dying.

    9.Pandemics: The great un-levelling.

    Index

Living with Health Inequalities

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    A Paperback by Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 11/30/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780367458379, 978-0367458379
      ISBN10: 0367458373
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      Medical sociology Personal and public health / health education Social discrimination and social justice

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social, economic and political inequality. Complementing a traditional public health approach, the book moves beyond a focus on categories of morbidity and their structural causes. Instead, it focuses on everyday understandings and actions for people living in unequal social conditions. Making use of a variety of case studies related to physical and mental health, the authors emphasise interpersonal relationships, biographical meanings and the daily tactics of âgetting byâ. These are recurrently linked to the social-structural aspects of particular times and places.

      The book:

      • Draws upon, applies and extends the biopsychosocial approach, which is well known to students of public health.
      • Respects and gives due weight to the experience in context of people who live with health inequalities, in domestic and local settings.
      • Explores notions of per

        Table of Contents

        Preface

        1.People who need people: A relational approach to living with inequalities

        2.Living in the middle and living optimally

        3.Feed the poor, eat the rich: Ingestion and inequality

        4.Takes your breath away: Inequalities in respiratory health

        5.Running up that hill: Living unequally with the meaning of sport and exercise

        6.Ordinary distress and loneliness

        7.Normal and abnormal suffering

        8.Tired of living and scared of dying.

        9.Pandemics: The great un-levelling.

        Index

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