Health and inequality : major themes in health and social welfare

Health and inequality : major themes in health and social welfare /

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Other Authors: Pickett, Kate, Wilkinson, Richard G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Major themes in health and social welfare
Subjects:
Equality > Health aspects
Discrimination in medical care
Health services accessibility
Health Status Disparities
Healthcare Disparities
Health Services Accessibility
Socioeconomic Factors
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. Health inequalities: the evidence. Pt. 1. Classic research establishing the fact of social inequalities in health. 1. Epidemiology and social sciences: towards a critical reengagement in the 21st century / N. Krieger
  • 2. Could you starve to death in England in 1839? The Chadwick-Farr controversy and the loss of the "social" in public health / Christopehr Hamlin
  • 3. Durkheim, social integration and suicide rates / Andy Alaszewski and Jill Manthorpe
  • 4. Medicine as social science: Rudolf Virchow on the typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia / Rex Taylor and Annelie Rieger
  • Pt. 2. Health inequalities by area, income, education, occupation, gender and ethnicity. 5. Hypotheses and interpretations of distributions / R.E. Faris and H.W. Dunham
  • 6. The relationship of fetal and infant mortality to residential segregation: an inquiry into social epidemiology / Alfred Yankauer, Jr.
  • 7. Education and income differentials / Evelyn M. Kitagawa and Philip M. Hauser
  • 8. Employment grade and coronary heart disease in British civil servants / M.G. Marmot ... [et al.]
  • 9. the changing relation between mortality and level of economic development / Samuel H. Preston
  • 10. Public action and the quality of life in developing countries / Amartya Sen
  • 11. The uneven tides of the health transition / Patrick Heuveline, Michel Guillot and Davidson R. Gwatkin
  • 12. The epidemiological transition: from material scarcity to social disadvantage? / Richard G. Wilkinson
  • 13. Inequalities in health: the Black Report: a summary and comment / Alastair McIntosh Gray
  • 14. The Black Report on socioeconomic inequalities in health 10 years on / George Davey Smith, Mel Bartley and David Blane
  • 15. The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United states, 1960 and 1986 / Gregory Pappas ... [et al.]
  • 16. The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic / James Banks ... [et al.]
  • 17. Comparing inequalities in women's and men's health: Britain in the 1990s / sara Arber
  • 18. comparing health inequality in men and women: prospective study of mortality 1986-96 / Amanda Sacker ... [et al.]
  • 19. US socioeconomic and racial differences in health: patterns and explanations / David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins
  • 20. the structuring of ethnic inequalities in health: economic position, racial discrimination, and racism / James Y. Nazroo
  • 21. Public health then and now: historical and cultural roots of drinking problems among American Idians / John W. Frank, Roland S. Moore and Genevieve M. Ames
  • Pt. 3. The measurement of health inequalities. 22. Measuring socioeconomic position in health research / Bruna Galobardes, John Lynch and George Davey Smith
  • 23. The measurement of inequities in health: lessons from the British experience / Roy Car-Hill
  • 24. Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality in Western Europe / Johan P. Mackenbach ... [et al.]
  • 25. Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality in Western Europe / Denny Vågerö and Robert Erikson
  • 26. Comparing health inequalities across time and place: rate ratios and rate differences lead to different conclusions: analysis of cross-sectional data from 22 countries 1991-2001 / Kath Moser, Chris Frost and David A. Leon
  • Pt. 4. Selection vs. causation. 27. Social class selection and class differences in relation to stillbirths and infant deaths / R. Illsley
  • 28. Social class mortality differentials: artefact, selection or life circumstances? / A.J. Fox, P.O. Goldbatt and D.R. Jones
  • 29. Rethinking the health selection explanation for health inequalities / Patrick West
  • 30. Social selection: what does it contribute to social class differences in health? / David Blane, George Davey Smith and Mel Bartley
  • V. 2. Health inequalities: causes and pathways. Introduction. 31. Socioeconomic status and health: the challenge of the gradient / Nancy E. Adler ... [et al.]
  • Pt. 5. Behavioural causes of health inequalities. 32. Inequalities in diet and physical activity in Europe / Elizabeth Dowler
  • 33. Smoking prevalence among women in the European community 1950-1990 / Hilary Graham
  • 34. Social patterning of individual health behaviours: the case of cigarette smoking / Martin J. Jarvis and Jane Wardle
  • 35. Pregnant smokers who quit, pregnant smokers who don't: does history of problem behavior make a difference? / Lauren S. Wakschlag ... [et al.]
  • 36. Social class and coronary heart disease / Geoffrey Rose and M.G. Marmot
  • 37. Contributions of deaths relatd to alcohol use to socioeconomic variation in mortality: register based follow up study / Pia Mäkelä, Tapani Valkonen and Tuija Martelin
  • 38. Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: the role of health-risk behaviors / Paula M. Lants ... [et al.]
  • Pt. 6. Material causes of health inequalities. 39. The ghost of Christmas past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991 / Danny Dorling ... [et al.]
  • 40. Multilevel analyses of neighbourhood socioeconomic context and health outcomes: a critical review / K.E. Pickett and M. Pearl
  • 41. A minimum income for healthy living / J.N. Morris ... [et al.]
  • 42. Home is where the harm is: inadequate housing as a public health crisis / Samiya A. Bashir
  • 43. The inverse care law / Julian Tudor Hart
  • 44. Rethinking Mckeown: the relationship between publich health and social change / Simon Szreter
  • 45. "Avoidable" mortality and health services: a review of aggregate data studies / J.P. Mackenbach, M.H. Bouvier-Colle and E. Jougla
  • 46. Access to care, health status and health dispariteis in the United States and Canada: results of a cross-national population-based survey / Karen E. Lasser, David U. Himmelstein and Steffle Woolhandler
  • 47. Is greater patient choice consistent with equity? The case of the English NHS / Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand
  • Pt. 7. Social determinants of health in the workplace and unemployment. 48. Job characteristics in relation to the prevalence of myocardial infarction in the US health examination survey (HES) and the health and nutrition examination survey (HANES) / Robert A. Karasek ... [et al.]
  • 49. Linking sociological with physiological data: the model of effort-reward imbalance at work / J. Siegrist, D. Klein and K.-H. Voigt
  • 50. Contribution of job control and other risk factors to social variations in coronary heart disease incidence / M.G. Marmot ... [et al.]
  • 51. Job strain, effort-reward imbalance and employee well-being: a large-scale cross-sectional study / Jan de Jonge ... [et al.]
  • 52. Health effects of anticipation of job change and non-employment: longitudinal data from the Whitehall II study / Jane E. Ferrie ... [et al.]
  • 53. Unemployment and ill health: understanding the relationship / Mel Bartley
  • Pt. 8. Psychosocial causes of health inequalities. 54. The contribution of the social environment to host resistance: the Fourth Wade Hapton Frost Lecture / John cassel
  • 55. From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium / Lisa F. Berkman ... [et al.]
  • 56. Does subjective social status predict health and change in health status better than objective status? / Archana Sing-Manoux, Michael G. Marmot and Nancy E. Adler
  • 57. Social capital and community effects on population and individual health / Ichiro Kawachi
  • 58. Trust, health, and longevity / John C. Barefoot ... [et al.]
  • 59. A test of the psychosocial vulnerability and health behavior models of hostility: results from an 11-year follow-up study of Mexican Americans / Todd Q. Miller ... [et al.]
  • 60. The Pittsburgh common cold studies: psychosocial predictors of susceptibility to respiratory infectious illness / Sheldon Cohen
  • 61. The physiology of marriage: pathways to health / Theodore F. Robles and Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
  • Pt. 9. Early life and the life course. 62. When is mortality risk determined? Historical insights into a current debate / Diana Kuh and George Davey Smith
  • 63. Observations throwing light on the high mortality in the county of Finnmark: is the high mortality today a late effect of very poor living conditions in childhood and adolescence? / Anders Forsdahl
  • 64. Fetal origins of cardiovascular disease / David J.P. Barker
  • 65. Elevated plasma cortisol concentrations: a link betwen low birth weight and the insulin resistance syndrome? / D.I.W. Phillips ... [et al.]
  • 66. Transgenerational effects of posttraumatic stress disorder in babies of mothers exposed to the world trade center attacks during pregnancy / Rachel Yehuda ... [et al.]
  • 67. Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: post war birth cohort study / Diana Kuh ... [et al.]
  • 68. Origins of health inequalities in a national population sample / Chris Power and Sharon Matthews
  • 69. Parental neglect during childhood and increased risk of obesity in young adulthood / Inge Lissau and Thorkild I.A. Sørensen
  • 70. Lack of class variation in health in adolescence: an artefact of an occupational measure of social class? / Sally Macintyre and Patrick West
  • 71. Evaluating the evidence for models of life course socioeconomic factors and cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review / Ricardo A. Pollitt, Kathryn M. Rose and Jay S. Kaufman
  • 72. Childhood socioeconomic circumstances and cause-specific mortality in adulthood: systematic review and interpretation / Bruna Galobardes, John W. Lynch and George Davey Smith
  • 73. The environment of poverty: multiple stressor exposure, psychophysiological stress and socioemotional adjustment / Gary W. Evans and Kimberly English
  • V. III. Health inequalities: interventions and evaluations. Introduction. Pt. 10. The theory of public health intervention and preventive medicine. 74. Strategy of prevention: lessons from cardiovascular disease / Geoffrey Rose
  • 75. Sick individuals and sick populations / Geoffrey Rose
  • 76. When the population approach to prevention puts the health of individuals at risk / Jean Adams and Martin White
  • 77. From public health science to prevention policy: placing science in its social and political contexts / Katharine Atwood, Graham A. Colditz and Ichiro Kawachi
  • 78. Why reduce health inequalities? / Alistair Woodward and Ichiro Kawachi
  • Pt. 11. Overviews and frameworks for interventions and policies. 79. Evidence for public health policy on inequalities: 1: the reality according to policymakers / Mark Petticrew ... [et al.]
  • 80. Evidence for publich health policy on inequalities: 2: assembling the evidence jigsaw / Margaret Whitehead ... [et al.]
  • 81. Childhood disadvantage and health inequalities: a framework for policy based on lifecourse research / H. Graham and C. Power
  • 82. Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough / Cesar G. Victoria ... [et al.]
  • 83. Evidence into policy and practice? Measuring the progress of U.S. and U.K. policies to tackle disparities and inequalities in U.S. and U.K. health and health care / Mark Exworthy ... [et al.]
  • 84. Tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health: analysis of European experiences / Johan P. Mackenbach ... [et al.]
  • 85. Health inequalities in Scotland and England: the contrasting journeys of ideas from research into policy / Katherine Elizabeth Smith
  • 86. The search for evidence of effective health promotion / Viv Speller, Alyson Learmonth and D. Harrison
  • 87. Health impact assessment and the consideration of health inequalities / Jayne Parry and Edward Scully
  • Pt. 12. The impact of specific interventions on health and health inequalities. 88. A meta-analysis of trials evaluating patient education and counseling for three groups of preventive health behaviors / Patricia Dolan Mullen ... [et al.]
  • 89. A systematic review of the effectiveness of health service interventionsaimed at reducing inequalities in health / Lorna Arblaster ... [et al.]
  • 90. Widening social inequalities in risk for sudden infant death syndrome / Kate E. Pickett, Ye Lug and Diane S. Lauderdale
  • 91. The effect of water fluoridation and social inequalities on dental careis in 5-year-old children / Jane C. Riley, Michael A. Lennon and Roger P. Ellwood
  • 92. Educational level and 5-year all-cause mortality in the hypertension detection and follow-up program / Hypertension Detection and Follow-Up Program Cooperative Group
  • 93. Impacting health disparities through community outreach: utilizing the CLEAN look (culture, literacy, education, assessment, and networking) / Cathy D. Meade ... [et al.]
  • 94. Pathways of disadvantage and smoking careers: evidence and policy implications / Hillary Graham ... [et al.]
  • 95. Reduction in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction associated with a citywide smoing ordinance / Carl Bartecchi ... [et al.]
  • 96. The effects of price on alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems / Frank J. Chaloupka, Michael Grossman and Henry Saffer
  • 97. Cigarette smoking by socioeconomic group, sex, and age: effects of price, income, and health publicity / J. Townsend, P. Roderick and J. Cooper
  • 98. Understanding the impact of a microfinance-based intervention on women's empowerment and the reduction of intimate partner violence in South Africa / Julia C. Kim ... [et al.]
  • 99. A public health success: understanding policy changes related to teen sexual activity and pregnancy / Claire D. Brindis
  • 100. Evaluation of a campaign to improve immunization in a rural HeadStart program / Jeffrey P. Mayer, Robyn Housemann and Beverly Piepenbrok
  • 101. The impact of a family-empowerment intervention on juvenile offender heavy drinking: a latent growth model analysis / Richard Dembo ... [et al.]
  • 102. Do urban regeneration programes improve public health and reduce health inequalities? A synthesis of the evidence from UK policy and practice (1980-2004) / Hilary Thomson ... [et al.]
  • 103. Health effects of housing improvement: systematic review of intervention studies / Hilary Thomson, Mark Petticrew and David Morrison
  • 104. Economic change, crime, and mortality crisis in Russia: regional analysis / Peder Walberg ... [et al.]
  • 105. Trends in the prevalence of smoking in Russia during the transition to a market economy / Francesca Perlman ... [et al.]
  • Interplay of politics and law to promote health. 106. Improving economic equality and health: the case of postwar Japan / Stephen Bezruchka, Tsukasa Namekata and Maria Gilson Sistrom
  • Pt. 13. Early life interventions intended to have long-term outcomes. 107. Preventing low birth weight: does WIC work? A review of evaluations of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children / Barbara Abrams
  • 108. Early childhood education programs / Janet Currie
  • 109. Understanding variations in effectiveness amongst Sure Start local programmes: lessons for Sure Start children's centres / Angela Anning and the National Evaluation of Sure start (NESS) Team
  • 110. Home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses: a randomized, controlled trial / David L. Olds ... [et al.]
  • 111. Child development and long-term outcomes: a population health perspective and summary of successful interventions / C. Hertzman and M. Wiens
  • 112. Promoting prenatal and early childhood health: evaluation of a statewide materials-based intervention for parents / Linda Neuhauser ... [et al.]
  • Pt. 14. Community engagement. 113. Social determinants of health: the community as an empowered partner / S. Leonard Syme
  • V. IV. The political, social, and biological ecology of health. Pt. 15. Relative vs. absolute deprivation in relation to health. 114. Health inequalities: relative or absolute material standards? / Richard G. Wilkinson
  • 115. Child wellbeing and income inequality in rich societies: ecological cross sectional study / Kate E. Pickett and Richard G. Wilkinson
  • 116. The wealthy get healthy, the poor get poorly? Lay perceptions of health inequalities / Rosemary Davidson, Jenny Kitzinger and Kate Hunt
  • 117. On being poor and feeling poor: low socioeconomic status and the moral self / Erika Blacksher
  • Pt. 16. Human sensitivity to the social environment. 118. When the social self is threatened: shame, physiology, and health / Sally S. Dickerson, Tara L. Gruenewald and Margaret E. Kemeny
  • 119. Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight / Shelley E. Taylor ... [et al.]
  • 120. Stigma and its public health implications / Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan
  • 121. Stigma, discrimination and the health of illicit drug users / Jennifer Ahern, Jennifer Stuber and Sandro Galea
  • 122. Belief systems and durable inequalities: an experimental investigation of Indian caste / Karla Hoff and Priyanka Pandey
  • 123. Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans / Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson
  • 124. Minorities and mental health / David Halpern
  • 125. Violence in public health and preventive medicine / James Gilligan ... [et al.]
  • Pt. 17. The stress of modern life. 126. The age of anxiety? Birth cohort change in anxiety and neuroticism, 1952-1993 / Jean M. Twenge
  • 127. It's beyond my control: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of increasing externality in locus of control, 1960-2002 / Jean M. Twenge, Liqing Zhang and Charles Im
  • 128. Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly
  • 129. Should public policy respond to positional externalities? / Robert H. Frank
  • Pt. 18. Non-human primate studies of stress and social relationships. 130. Are subordinates always stressed? A comparative analysis of rank differences in cortisol levels among primates / D.H. Abbott ... [et al.]
  • 131. Social dominance in monkeys: dopamine D2 receptors and cocaine self-administration / Drake Morgan ... [et al.]
  • 132. Monkeys reject unequal pay / Sarah F. Brosnan and Frans B.M. De Waal
  • Pt. 19. Human nature, egalitarianism and social justice. 133. The nature of human altruism / ernst Fehr and Urs Flshbacher
  • 134. "Economic Man" in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies / Joseph Henrich ... [et al.]
  • 135. Oxytocin increases trust in humans / Michael Kosfeld ... [et al.]
  • 136. Egalitarianism and Machiavellian intelligence in human evolution / David Erdal and Andrew Whiten
  • 137. Unfairness and health: evdience from the Whitehall II Study / Roberto De Vogli ... [et al.]
  • Pt. 20. The impact of income inequality on health and other social problems. 138. Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence / Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett
  • 139. The problems of relative deprivation: why some societies do better than others / Richard G. Wilkinson and Kate E. Pickett
  • 140. Literacy proficiency of youth: evidence of converging socioeconomic gradients / J. doublas Willms
  • 141. Income inequality and socioeconomic gradients in mortality / Richard G. Wilkinsona nd Kate E. Pickett
  • Pt. 21. An overview. 142. Sick of poverty / Robert Sapolsky.

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