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Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods: An Introduction of Theories, Concepts and Methods - Hardcover
This book provides a key to understanding the four most widely accepted theories of what lies behind inequality in healthcare: behavioural, psychosocial, material and life-course approaches.
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"Mel Bartley's enquiry into health inequalities is admirablythorough and balanced ... What is particularly refreshing is theway in which the different implications for practical action ofaccepting different models of causation are highlighted ... [An]excellent book."
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Health Service Journal
"This book makes an original and major contribution to the bodyof knowledge on the complex theories of inequalities in health. Itis well written and explained in simple terms that encourage thereader to evaluate the original research for themselves."
Australian Social Work
"This book should become essential reading for anyone genuinelyinterested in understanding health inequalities."
International Journal of Epidemiology
This book provides all you ever wanted to know about healthinequality but did not dare to ask. We know from many studies thatthere are large differences in life expectancy between the mostprivileged and the most disadvantaged social groups in industrialsocieties. But we need to look beyond the figures to the social andbiological processes that underlie them in order to understand whythis is so. This book provides a key to understanding the four mostwidely accepted theories of what lies behind inequality inhealthcare: behavioural, psychosocial, material and life-courseapproaches.
The methods most commonly employed by health inequalityresearchers are carefully explained in simple terms in a way thatenables readers to judge for themselves how good the evidence isfor each theory. It makes concepts and methods more widelyavailable which can be applied to any area of study that seeks totake account of social and biological factors.
Health Inequality will be essential reading for studentstaking courses in the sociology of health and illness, socialpolicy and welfare, health sciences, public health and epidemiologyand all those interested in understanding the consequences ofsocial inequality for health.
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- PublisherPolity Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 074562779X
- ISBN 13 9780745627793
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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