Health inequality : an introduction to concepts, theories and methods
Bartley, Mel2025
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The persistence of stark health inequalities in today's world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world. How can we advance our understanding of the full extent of health inequality, what drives it, and ways to address it? This edition closely examines the influence of social class, gender, and race/ethnicity (among other issues) on health in the light of broad macro-political contexts. The classic behavioural, psychosocial, and material approaches to health and their embodiment within a life-course perspective are introduced but, importantly, are also re-situated within the growing understanding of the commercial and political determinants of health.
Author:
Bartley, Mel, authorKelly-Irving, Michelle, author
Edition:
Third edition / Mel Bartley and Michelle Kelly-Irving.
Imprint:
Cambridge : Polity, 2025.
Collation:
ix, 278 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: published as by Mel Bartley. 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781509557165 (pbk. :)
Local class:
306.461 BAR
Language:
English
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BRN:
3903574