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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Key Terms | |
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Health inequalities and inequities | |
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Introduction | |
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What are health inequalities? | |
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What are health inequities? | |
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Conclusions | |
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Measuring health and health inequalities | |
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Introduction | |
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Measuring health: mortality-based measures | |
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Measuring health: measures based on people's assessment of their health status | |
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Measuring health: measures of development and decline | |
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Measuring health inequalities | |
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Conclusions | |
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Socio-economic inequalities | |
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Introduction | |
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Researching socio-economic inequalities | |
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Socio-economic position as a structural location | |
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Socio-economic position as actively produced | |
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Childhood and parenting | |
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Conclusions | |
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Measuring socio-economic position | |
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Introduction | |
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Measurement of socio-economic position | |
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Measures of socio-economic position | |
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Conclusions | |
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Patterns | |
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Health inequalities: global, national and historical | |
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Introduction | |
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Global health inequalities | |
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Socio-economic inequalities in health within countries | |
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Socio-economic inequalities in health over time | |
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Conclusions | |
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Health inequalities across changes in disease | |
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Introduction | |
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Socio-economic inequalities in health across changes in causes of death | |
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Social patterning of risk factors for chronic disease | |
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Conclusions | |
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Understandings | |
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Social determinants of health and health inequalities | |
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Introduction | |
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The emerging focus on social determinants | |
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Models of the social determinants of health | |
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Social position as a key determinant of health | |
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Conclusions | |
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Socio-economic inequalities across generations: occupation and education | |
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Introduction | |
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Changes in the labour market | |
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Class origins and class destinations: inequalities across generations | |
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Class inequalities in educational trajectories | |
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Class inequalities in educational opportunities | |
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Conclusions | |
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Socio-economic inequalities across people's lives: partnership and parenthood | |
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Introduction | |
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Partnership, parenthood and adult socio-economic position | |
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Widening inequalities in domestic trajectories | |
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Young motherhood | |
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Conclusions | |
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Health across unequal lives | |
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Introduction | |
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The socio-economic life course and health | |
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Socio-economic inequalities in developmental health | |
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Socio-economic inequalities in functional ageing | |
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Conclusions | |
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Unequal lives: policy matters | |
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Introduction | |
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Policy approaches to tackling health inequalities | |
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Welfare systems and socio-economic inequalities | |
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Widening income inequalities | |
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Conclusions | |
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Concluding comment | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |