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Informationen zum Autor Mel Bartley is a Professor of Medical Sociology! International Centre for Health and Society! Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London. Klappentext * Provides a key to understanding the four most widely accepted theories of what lies behind inequality in healthcare: behavioural! psychosocial! material and life--course approaches. * Carefully explains the methods most commonly employed by health inequality researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements. Dedication. 1. What is Health Inequality. 2. Measuring Socio--Economic Position. 3. Figuring Out Health Inequality. 4. Models of Aetiological Pathways I: Behavioural and 'Cultural' Explanations. 5. Models of Aetiological Pathways II: The Psychosocial Model. 6. Models of Aetiological Pathways III: The Materialist Model. 7. Models of Aetiological Pathways IV: The Life Course Approach. 8. Social Ecology. 9. Understanding Gender Inequality in Health. 10. Ethnic Inequalities in Health. 11. Health Inequality and Social Policy
