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Book Synopsis"Thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of Understanding Health Inequalities, edited by Hilary Graham, remains a welcome and timely contribution. Replete with thoughtful essays on health inequities analyzed in relation to societal structure, social position and geography ... the volume provides important insights into how class, racial/ethnic, gender, and spatial health inequities are produced - and how they can be rectified. The world economic crisis launched by the implosion of unregulated financial markets in the fall of 2008 only serves to underscore the volume's central conclusion: that government regulation and intervention, premised on a commitment to equity, is essential for tackling health inequalities. Health professionals, students, and any and all working for healthy and sustainable ways of living will benefit from this collection."Nancy Krieger, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Understanding Health Inequalities second edition
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The challenge of health inequalities
Hilary Graham
Part I: Health inequalities: understanding patterns over time and place
2. Life course influences on children’s futures
Catherine Law
3. Life course influences on health at older ages
Mel Bartley & David Blane
4. Geographical inequalities in health over the last century
Danny Dorling & Bethan Thomas
5. Neighbourhoods, social class and health
Sally Macintyre & Anne Ellaway
Part II: Health inequalities: understanding intersections
6. Religion, ethnicity and health inequalities
James Nazroo & Saffron Karlsen
7. Negotiating ethnic identities and health
Karl Atkin
8. Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and health behaviours: an overview
Kate Hunt and G David Batty
9. Class cultures and the meaning of young motherhood
Naomi Rudoe and Rachel Thomson
Part III: Health inequalities: understanding policy impacts
10. Unequal consequences of ill-health: researching the role of public policy
Margaret Whitehead, Barbara Hanratty and Bo Burström
11. Tackling health inequalities: the scope for policy
Hilary Graham
