Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality /
Wilkinson, Richard G.
Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / Richard Wilkinson. - xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: the social economy of health -- Health becomes a social science -- Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition -- The problem of health inequalities -- Income distribution and health -- A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan -- An anthropology of social cohesion -- The symptoms of disintegration -- The psychosocial causes of illness -- Baboons, civil servants and children's height -- Social capital: putting Humpty together again -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
0415092353 9780415092357 0415092345 9780415092340
96021560
Social medicine.
Income distribution--Health aspects
Equality--Health aspects
RA418. / W45 1996
306.461
Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / Richard Wilkinson. - xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: the social economy of health -- Health becomes a social science -- Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition -- The problem of health inequalities -- Income distribution and health -- A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan -- An anthropology of social cohesion -- The symptoms of disintegration -- The psychosocial causes of illness -- Baboons, civil servants and children's height -- Social capital: putting Humpty together again -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
0415092353 9780415092357 0415092345 9780415092340
96021560
Social medicine.
Income distribution--Health aspects
Equality--Health aspects
RA418. / W45 1996
306.461