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As standards of healthcare decline, so do our bodies; we need a radical vision for healthcare

Trade Review
'Excellent - a radical vision of how to improve healthcare provision and with it, the health of humanity' -- Professor John Parrington, University of Oxford
'As another major 'inequality commission' is set up in Britain, 'Vital Signs' presents a clear historical and theoretical framing for why stark health differences between social and ethnic groups persist or increase across the globe' -- George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, editor of 'Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches' (Policy, 2003)

Table of Contents

List of Figures
1. Introduction
2. Healthcare in the Age of Neoliberalism
3. Mergers, Monopolies and the ‘Rising Billions’
4. The Social Determinants of Health
5. The ‘Inequality Thesis’
6. Ageing Populations?
7. Health, Power and Paradigms
8. Legislating for Better Health?
9. Who’s WHO?
10. The National Health Service: A Revolution Half Made?
11. Conclusion
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9780745338347, 978-0745338347
      ISBN10: 0745338348
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      As standards of healthcare decline, so do our bodies; we need a radical vision for healthcare

      Trade Review
      'Excellent - a radical vision of how to improve healthcare provision and with it, the health of humanity' -- Professor John Parrington, University of Oxford
      'As another major 'inequality commission' is set up in Britain, 'Vital Signs' presents a clear historical and theoretical framing for why stark health differences between social and ethnic groups persist or increase across the globe' -- George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, editor of 'Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches' (Policy, 2003)

      Table of Contents

      List of Figures
      1. Introduction
      2. Healthcare in the Age of Neoliberalism
      3. Mergers, Monopolies and the ‘Rising Billions’
      4. The Social Determinants of Health
      5. The ‘Inequality Thesis’
      6. Ageing Populations?
      7. Health, Power and Paradigms
      8. Legislating for Better Health?
      9. Who’s WHO?
      10. The National Health Service: A Revolution Half Made?
      11. Conclusion
      Notes
      Index

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