Local government and inequalities in health
By: Graeme Betts.
Publisher: Avebury
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Aldershot; Brookfield, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Community health services -- Government policy -- Great Britain.; Medical policy -- Great Britain.; Health services accessibility -- Great Britain.; Local government -- Great Britain.
Description: Comments on the continued existence of inequalities in health and offers strategies for reducing them. The text addresses the issues of health maintenance and the reduction of inequalities from the perspective that local government should play the leading role.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-154).
"Based on the work for a PhD thesis in the Department of Social Policy and Social Planning at the University of Bristol"--Acknowledgements.