The Widening Gap: Health Inequalities and Policy in Britain

Mary Shaw; Daniel Dorling; David Gordon; George Davey Smith

doi:10.46692/9781847425072

The Widening Gap

Health Inequalities and Policy in Britain

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Mary Shaw, Daniel Dorling, University of Oxford, David Gordon, University of Bristol, George Davey Smith, University of Bristol

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: July 2022
Print publication year:: 1999
Online ISBN:: 9781847425072
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847425072

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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This report presents critical new evidence on the size of the widening health gap. New geographical data are presented and displayed in striking graphical form. The Widening Gap should be read alongside Inequalities in Health: The Evidence Presented to the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (The Policy Press, 1999).

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

List of tables and figures
pp iv-ix

Foreword
pp x-xvii

Acknowledgements
pp xviii-xviii

Glossary
pp xix-xxi

Dedication
pp xxii-xxii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-8

2 - The health gap
pp 9-64

3 - Explaining the gap
pp 65-106

4 - The widening gap
pp 107-168

5 - Narrowing the gap – the policy debate
pp 169-210

References
pp 211-236

Appendix A - Premature mortality, poverty and avoidable deaths for each Parliamentary Constituency in Britain by Member of Parliament and their Party 1991-95
pp 237-252

Appendix B - Technical details for estimating numbers living in poverty
pp 253-256

Appendix C - Does the spatial distribution of social class explain geographical inequalities in health?
pp 257-260

Index
pp 261-267

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