Understanding health inequalities / edited by Hilary Graham.

Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2000.

x, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

The challenge of health inequalities -- Ethnicity, health and the meaning of socio-economic position -- Identity and structure: rethinking ethnic inequalities in health -- Dimensions of inequality and the health of women -- Lifecourse influences on health in early old age -- Income and health over the lifecourse: evidence and policy implications -- Barriers rooted in biography: how interpretations of family patterns of heart disease and early life experience may undermine behavioural change in mid-life -- Housing tenure and health inequalities: a three-dimensional perspective on people, homes and neighborhoods -- Putting health inequalities on the map: does where you live matter, and why? -- Understanding health inequalities: locating people in geographical and social spaces -- Individual deprivation, neighbourhood and recovery from illness -- Housing wealth and community health: exploring the role of migration -- Researching the impact of public policy on inequalities in health.

Includes bibliographical references and index.