Health inequality : an introduction to theories, concepts, and methods /
By: Bartley, Mel
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Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2004Description: viii, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 074562779X (hb); 9780745627793:; 9780745627793 (hb); 0745627803 (pb); 9780745627809 (pb).Subject(s): Social medicine | Social classes -- Health aspects | Health status indicatorsDDC classification: 362.1 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-199) and index.
What is health inequality -- Measuring socio-economic position -- Figuring out health inequality -- Models of aetiological pathways I: behavioural and 'cultural' explanations -- Models of aetiological pathways II: the psychosocial model -- Models of aetiological pathways III: the materialist model -- Models of aetiological pathways IV: the life course approach -- Social ecology -- Gender inequality in health -- Ethnic inequalities in health -- Health inequality and social policy.
Providing a key to understanding the four most widely accepted theories of what lies behind inequality in healthcare: behavioural, psychosocial, material and life-course approaches, this book looks beyond the figures to the social and biological processes that underlie them.