Getting Better

The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Winner of the 2026 Richard Titmuss Book Award. 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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Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:288 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447372868

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Clare Bambra is Professor of Public Health at the Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University. Julia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.Katherine Smith is Professor of Public Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde.

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“Recognition that the key determinants of health inequalities lie in the realm of politics and macroeconomics can foster world-weariness, even despair – what to do? This book is an evidence-based counter to despair. It shows, using four case studies, that health inequalities have been reduced by political and social policies. The key message is to continue these life-enhancing policies.” Sir Michael Marmot, UCL Institute of Health Equity

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: The holy grail of reducing health inequalities2. The Great Society: social reform and health inequalities in the United States3. Vote early, vote often: democratisation in Brazil and health inequalities4. What belongs together will grow together: German reunification and health inequalities5. Things can only get better: England’s Health Inequalities Strategy6. Waxing and waning: the four levellers of health inequalities7. Conclusion: The politics of health inequalities