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Book Synopsis"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 societiesâ 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
"The book has high educational value and is worthy of being considered as a resource for students in
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Key Terms
Health inequalities and inequities
Measures of health and health inequalities
Socioeconomic inequalities
Measures of socioeconomic position
Part 2: Patterns of Unequal Health
Health inequalities: global, national and historical
Health inequalities across changes in disease
Part 3: Understandings
Social determinants of health and health inequalities
Socioeconomic inequalities across generations: occupation and education
Socioeconomic inequalities across generations: partnership and parenthood
Health across unequal lives
Unequal lives: policy matters
Concluding comment
Bibliography
