Unequal health : the scandal of our times / Danny Dorling.
This book shows conclusively that inequalities in health are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the near future.
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- ""UNEQUAL HEALTH""; ""Contents""; ""Sources of extracts""; ""Section I: The long view""; ""Section II: The liberal record""; ""Section III: Medicine and politics""; ""Section IV: Despair and joy""; ""Section V: Global inequality""; ""Section VI: Thinking, drawing and counting""; ""Section VII: Changing demographics and ageing populations""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""SECTION 1 The long view""; ""1. Unequal health: why a scandal, and why now?""; ""Seeing past scandals in the present""; ""The scandal of our times""; ""Why economic inequality harms health""
- ""Why cooperation helps us all""""2. The long view: from 1817 to 2012""; ""From Medinipur to Manchester""; ""Under the High Level Bridge""; ""Epidemiological imaginations""; ""The ghosts of past times""; ""The beginnings and the ends""; ""Conclusion""; ""Annex""; ""3. The ghost of Christmas past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991""; ""Abstract ""; ""Introduction""; ""Method ""; ""Results ""; ""Discussion ""; ""Annex: Letter, �Inequalities and Christmas yet to come�""; ""4. Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905�2005""; ""Introduction""; ""Background ""
- ""Where most infants die""""Conclusions""; ""5. Who cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law""; ""How this fits in ""; ""Summary""; ""Introduction ""; ""Method ""; ""Results""; ""Discussion ""; ""SECTION II The liberal record""; ""6. Paving the way for �any willing provider� to privatise the NHS""; ""Origins of the Coalition government�s Health and Social Care Bill""; ""Reasons not to privatise""; ""Conclusion and collusion""; ""7. Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress7""; ""Summary points""; ""Introduction""
- ""Tracking progress towards (sensible) targets """"Taking poverty into account ""; ""What does all this show? ""; ""Are these inequalities inevitable? ""; ""Are these inequalities acceptable? ""; ""Have policy changes been sufficient to redress these inequalities? ""; ""What do recent changes suggest for inequalities in the future? ""; ""8. Closer to equality? Assessing New Labour�s record on health after 10 years in government""; ""Target 1: Infant mortality rates ""; ""Target 2: Life expectancy comparisons by area ""; ""Conclusion""; ""9. Social harm and social policy in Britain ""
- ""Introduction""""The new welfare reform bill""; ""Not all work is good for you ""; ""The solutions � mass medication? ""; ""Conclusion: residual functioning ability ""; ""10. Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007 ""; ""Abstract ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Methods ""; ""Results ""; ""The longer historical picture""; ""Discussion ""; ""Strengths and limitations ""; ""Conclusions and policy implications""; ""SECTION III Medicine and politics""; ""11. Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale""