Local government and inequalities in health
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Local government and inequalities in health
Avebury, c1933
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  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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Note
"Based on the work for a PhD thesis in the Department of Social Policy and Social Planning at the University of Bristol"--Acknowledgements
Bibliography: p. 148-154
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a perspective on the continued existence of inequalities in health and strategies for reducing them. It provides new information on the existence of inequalities in health at a local level and examines the role that local government has played in maintaining health and reducing inequalities in health. As well as presenting analyses of historical and contemporary developments in local authority health services, it contains original research findings on inequalities in health amongst elderly people in a local area. A feature of this book is that it addresses the issues of health maintenance and the reduction of inequalities in health from the perspective that local government should play the leading role. It supports the findings in the Black Report, developing them in the context of local government and offers a strategy that local authorities could adopt for achieving improvements in health and a reduction in inequalities in health.
Table of Contents
- Inequalities in health in Britain
- theoretical perspectives on health and inequalities in health
- local authorities and the development of health services - local authority health services before 1848
- local authority health services - 1848 to 1939
- local authority health services - 1946 to the present
- local authorities and health - recent developments
- environmental health departments
- social services departments
- local authority health committees and the re-emergence of the public health movement
- survey of elderly people in a borough in south-east London
- reducing inequalities in health - a strategy for local authorities.
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