Social Inequalities, Health and Health Care Delivery (Research in the Sociology of Health Care)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780762309573
Subjects: Health systems & services; Public health & preventive medicine; Social groups & communities; Social Science; Medical care; Health Care Planning; Health Insurance; Medical / Nursing; Sociology - General; Sociology; USA; Medically uninsured persons; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science-Sociology - General; Human Services; Health services accessibility
First sentence: It is well known that the SES gradient is negatively related to most forms of morbidity and positively related to longevity (see the review in Cockerham, 2001, pp. 57-65).