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Social Inequalities in Health - New evidence and policy implications (Paperback)
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Social Inequalities in Health - New evidence and policy implications (Paperback)
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Health inequalities according to people's social standing are
persisting, or even growing, in modern societies. Recent decades
have revealed evidence of strong variations in life expectancy,
both between countries and within them. This widening of social
inequalities has developed despite considerable progress in medical
science and an increase in health care spending. The reasons behind
this are complex, and the implications considerable. This book
provides a summary of the major achievements of a five-year
European Science Foundation (ESF) Programme on 'Social Variations
in Health Expectancy in Europe'. The contributors are major figures
in their subjects, and combine state of the art reviews with the
latest results from interdisciplinary research in epidemiology,
sociology, psychology and biomedicine. Three conceptual frameworks
of life course influences, health effects of stressful
environments, and macro social determinants of health, are unified,
while each chapter addresses the policy implications and
recommendations derived from currently available evidence. The
major topics covered include the role of family in early life,
social integration and health, work stress and job security,
successful ways of facing adversity, and the impact of the larger
environment on health. Epidemiologists, public health research and
policy makers, and students of related public health and sociology
courses wlll find the results of this research fascinating.
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