Anmerkung: Includes index

Anmerkung: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) , In English

Anmerkung: Front Matter , Contents , Sources of extracts , Foreword , Acknowledgements , The long view , Unequal health: why a scandal, and why now? , The long view: from 1817 to 2012 , The ghost of Christmas past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991 , Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905–2005 , Who cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law , The liberal record , Paving the way for ‘any willing provider’ to privatise the NHS , Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress , Closer to equality? Assessing New Labour’s record on health after 10 years in government , Social harm and social policy in Britain , Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007 , Medicine and politics , Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale , Time for a smoke: one cigarette is equivalent to 11 minutes of life expectancy , Private finance: ‘Select Committee’s report used parliamentary privilege unacceptably’ , Government cover-ups: Labour’s ‘Black Report’ moment , Putting the sick to work: the real Mental Health Bill , Losing votes and voters: would action on inequality have saved New Labour? , Mapping inequalities in Britain , London’s political landscapes , Despair and joy , Preserving sanity when everything is related to everything else , Suicide: the spatial and social components of despair in Britain, 1980–2000 , How suicide rates have risen during periods of Conservative government, 1901–2000 , The inequality hypothesis: thesis, antithesis and a synthesis , Housing and identity: how place makes race , Border controls? Here’s a long line of reasons to relax , ‘Poor kids’, interview with Kerry O’Brien, Australian Broadcasting Corporation , Global inequality , Less suffering , How do the other four fifths live? , Global inequality of life expectancy due to AIDS , Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere , Mortality in relation to sex in the affluent world , Anamorphosis, the geography of physicians, and mortality , The global impact of income inequality on health by age: an observational study , Wars, massacres and atrocities of the 20th century , Re-evaluating self-evaluation. A commentary on Jen, Jones and Johnston , America’s debt to the world , Thinking, drawing and counting , It’s the way that you do it , Worldmapper: the human anatomy of a small planet , Using statistics to describe and explore data , Socio-demographic diversity and unexplained variation in death rates among the most deprived areas in Britain , What if it were not the custard cream that did for them? , Changing demographics and ageing populations , Growing old gracefully , Measuring the impact of major life events on happiness , Roads, casualties and public health: the open sewers of the 21st century , Tackling global health inequalities: closing the health gap in a generation , How will we care for the centenarians of the future? , We’re all ... just little bits of history repeating , Future people and shifting power , Looking on the bright side , Index , In English

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-300) and index

Anmerkung: Previous ed.: 2008

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Online-Ausg.: