Getting Better
eBook - ePub

Getting Better

The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Getting Better

The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities

About this book

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues as the cost of living rises and other sources of inequity grow. What can be done to make things better?

This book, written by the authors behind the award-winning The Unequal Pandemic, explores successful international case studies of governments reducing health inequalities – from the USA and Brazil to Germany and England – stretching over fifty years from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Essential reading for students and scholars of public health and the social sciences, and for health and social care professionals and policy makers, this book demonstrates that reducing health inequalities is possible and provides a roadmap for today's governments to follow.

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Yes, you can access Getting Better by Clare Bambra,Julia Lynch,Katherine E. Smith,Katherine Smith in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politique et relations internationales & Industrie pharmaceutique, biotechnologique et de la santé. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: The holy grail of reducing health inequalities
  9. 2 The Great Society: social reform and health inequalities in the United States
  10. 3 Vote early, vote often: democratisation in Brazil and health inequalities
  11. 4 What belongs together will grow together: German reunification and health inequalities
  12. 5 Things can only get better: England’s Health Inequalities Strategy
  13. 6 Waxing and waning: the four levellers of health inequalities
  14. 7 Conclusion: The politics of health inequalities
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index