The geography of health inequalities in the developed world : views from Britain and North America

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The geography of health inequalities in the developed world : views from Britain and North America

edited by Paul Boyle ... [et al.]

Ashgate, c2004

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Illustrated by a wide range of international case studies, this book examines the issue of health inequalities in the developed world from a specifically geographical perspective. The authors prove that "place" is an important factor in health inequality and offer an original perspective on and insight into one of the major problems of the Western world. One of the most important issues needing to be tackled by countries throughout the developed world is that of health inequalities. The Acheson Report re-emphasized this by showing that, in Britain at least, health inequalities between sub-groups of the population not only still exist, but that the health gap is widening between the better- and worse-off in society. While there has been growing recognition of the impact "place" makes to the distribution of mortality and morbidity, this volume focuses specifically on this point, examining the dilemmas of health inequality from a specifically geographical perspective

Table of Contents

  • Health geographies in the developed world, Elspeth Graham, Paul Boyle, Sarah Curtis and Eric Moore. Historical Variations: The origins of social class mortality differentials, Robert Woods
  • Locality level mortality and socio-economic change in Britain since 1920: first steps towards analysis of infant mortality variation, Rita Mota de Campos, Peter Congdon, Sarah Curtis, Ian Gregory, Ian Jones and Humphrey Southall
  • The widening gap - health inequalities in Britain at the end of the twentieth century, Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, David Gordon and George Davey Smith. Contemporary Variations: Why is mortality higher in unequal societies? interpreting income inequality and mortality in Canada and the US, Nancy Ross, Michael Wolfson, Jean-Marie Berthelot and James Dunn
  • Does migration exaggerate the relationship between deprivation and self-reported limiting long-term illness?, Paul Boyle and Oliver Duke-Williams
  • Measuring the geographic effects in a model of depression among the elderly in Canada, Eric Moore, Mark Rosenberg and Corey Mackenzie
  • Local geographies of health inequalities, Anthony Gatrell, Damon Berridge, Sharon Bennett, Lisa Bostock, Carol Thomas, Jennie Popay and Gareth Williams
  • The relationship of population density, postcode sector hectarage and area deprivation to premature mortality in four Scottish cities, Russell Ecob. Methods and Models: Evaluating the absolute and relative income hypotheses in an exploratory analysis of deaths in the Health and Lifestyle survey, Kelvyn Jones, Craig Duncan and Lizbeth Twigg
  • Identifying area effects on health: a comparison of single and multi-level models, Simon Gleave, Richard D. Wiggins, Heather Joshi and Kevin Lynch
  • The effect of the modifiable areal unit problem in modelling the distribution of limiting long-term illness in Northern England, Alistair Geddes and Robin Flowerdew
  • Limiting long-term illness and locality deprivation in England and Wales: acknowledging the 'socio-spatial context', Paul Boyle, Anthony Gatrell and Oliver Duke-Williams
  • The fallacy of the equivalence of a range of household and area based indicators of material resources in the geography of health inequalities, Sally Macintyre, Rosemary Hiscock, Anne Ellaway and Ade Kearns. Theoretical Dimensions: Combining the social and the spatial: improving the geography of health inequalities, Richard Mitchell, Mel Bartley and Mary Shaw
  • Siting wealth and illness: the case of recovery from myocardial infarction, Elspeth Graham, Malcolm MacLeod, Chris Dibben and Marie Johnston
  • From recognition to practice: gradients, inequality and the social geography of health, Michael Hayes.

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