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.

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Social medicine.
Income distribution--Health aspects
Equality--Health aspects

RA418. / W45 1996

306.461

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