Health Inequality
Subtitle: An Introduction to Theories, Concepts and Methods
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780745627793
Subjects: Health systems & services; Social issues; Social theory; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Public Health; Reference; Health aspects; Health status indicators; Social classes; Social medicine
First sentence: Health inequality was put firmly on the map of both public policy and academic study with the publication in the United Kingdom of the Black Report in 1980 (Department of Health and Social Security, 1980; Townsend, Davidson and Whitehead, 1986).