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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Organisation of Misery; A Tale of Two Cities . . . And they are Both in Glasgow; Social Gradients? Focus on the Richest? Donâ#x80;#x99;t Poor Countries have to Worry About Poverty?; Rich Countries, Good Health?; MoneyÂâ#x80;#x93; Does it Matter Or Not?; Not Just Income, Society!; Poverty: Absolute Or Relative?; Poverty? Inequality? Empowerment? Donâ#x80;#x99;t We Know the Causes of Ill Health?; 2. Whose Responsibility?; Food And Fascism; What is the ArgumentÂâ#x80;#x93; Science or Something Else?; Rational Obesity? |
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Inequities in Health and â#x80;#x98;Lifestyleâ#x80;#x99;Ââ#x80;#x93; The Causes of the CausesObesity and OverweightÂâ#x80;#x93; Genes or Education?; AlcoholÂâ#x80;#x93; Just Personal Responsibility?; Whose Responsibility?; Donâ#x80;#x99;t People Have Poor Health Because They Donâ#x80;#x99;t Have Health Care?; 3. Fair Society, Healthy Lives; Social Justice and Avoidable Health Inequalities Inequities; Maximising Welfare; Promoting Freedom; Rewarding Virtue; Ideology And Evidence; 4. Equity from the Start; Childhood Experience Affects Adult Health . . . and Crime; Inequalities in Early Child DevelopmentÂâ#x80;#x93; The Social Gradient Starts Early |
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Early Child DevelopmentÂâ#x80;#x93; Where Should Parents Be?Do Parents Really Matter or are they Just Bystanders?; How the Social Gradient Gets Under the SkinÂâ#x80;#x93; Biological Embedding; What Can we do About Problems of Early Child Development?; Equality of Opportunity?; 5. Education and Empowerment; Education is Good . . . for Child Survival; . . . And for Reducing Fertility; . . . And for Your Own Health; . . . And for Protecting Yourself; . . . And for Your Countryâ#x80;#x99;s Development; Understanding and Addressing Inequalities . . . by Learning from Finland |
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. . . And, Although there are Socio-Economic Differences in Education, Poverty is not Destiny!. . . And for Moving to Gender Equity; What Can be Done to Improve Education?; 6. Working to Live; If you Think Alan had it Bad . . .; Work and Health; Inequities in Power, Money and Resources Come to the Work PlaceÂâ#x80;#x93; Not Just Physical and Chemical Exposures: Three Ways Work can Damage Health; Employment Conditions and Health; Making Things Better . . . By Getting Conditions of Employment Right; . . . And Pursuing Policies that Create Jobs, not Destroy themÂâ#x80;#x93; the Causes of the Causes |
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7. Do Not Go GentleOld in the Global North, Young in the Global South?; Great Inequities in Length of Life . . . Between Countries; . . . And Within Countries; Inequities in Quality of Life; Achieving Health Equity at Older Ages; Empowerment: Material, Psychosocial and Political; 8. Building Resilient Communities; Making Communities Socially Habitable; Building Socially Sustainable CommunitiesÂand Resilience; Improving the Material Environment; Age-Friendly Cities; Housing; 9. Fair Societies; Society: Right and Left; Learning; Money and Other Things That Matter |
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Patrimonial CapitalismÂâ#x80;#x93; Piketty Style |
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Health Status Disparities. |
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9781632860798 : $42.00 |
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1632860791 : $42.00 |
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