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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Publisher

Policy Press

Year

2025

eBook ISBN

9781447372875

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Healthcare Industry

Index

Politics & International Relations

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

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