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At a time when social inequalities are increasing at an alarming rate, this new edition of Mel Bartley's popular book is a vital resource for understanding the extent of health inequalities and why they are proving to be persistent despite decades of growing knowledge and policies on the issue. As in the first edition, by examining influences of social class, income, culture and wealth as well as gender, ethnicity and other factors in identit...

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. 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. Carefully explains the methods most commonly employed by health inequality ...

In this collection of papers leading researchers in the social sciences describe and explain the unequal chances of long and healthy life between groups.The chances of a long and healthy life are unequal: there are large differences between men and women, members of different ethnic groups, regions, and social classes. Health inequality is of increasing concern in all developed countries, forming one of the WHO's Health for All by the Year 200...

* 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. * Carefully explains the methods most commonly employed by health inequality researchers.