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Health Inequalities
Katherine E. Smith
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Description for Health Inequalities
Paperback. Provides wide-ranging anaylses and reviews of the UK's experiences of health inequalities research and policy to date, and reflects on the lessons that have been learnt from these experiences, both within the UK and internationally. Editor(s): Smith, Katherine; Bambra, Clare; Hill, Sarah E. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively involved in 'public health advocacy'. Yet there is currently no agreement as to what these new research agendas should be and despite multiple commentaries reflecting on recent UK efforts to reduce health inequalities, there has so far been ... Read more
Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively involved in 'public health advocacy'. Yet there is currently no agreement as to what these new research agendas should be and despite multiple commentaries reflecting on recent UK efforts to reduce health inequalities, there has so far been ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
546g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198703358
SKU
V9780198703358
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About Katherine E. Smith
Katherine Smith is a Reader at the Global Public Health Unit in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on analysing policies affecting public health (especially health inequalities) and better understanding the relationships between public health research, policy, advocacy and lobbying. Katherine recently brought some of this work together in a book ... Read more
Reviews for Health Inequalities
By combining critical social and political science perspectives togetherwith more standard public health approaches, and mainly applying them to the UK context, this book goes beyond standard traditional public health approaches, to try to better understand and address health inequalities
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