PROCOR: New interesting book on Health inequalities

[Dennis.Raphael@mail.atkinson.yorku.ca]

New interesting book on Health inequalities
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Dear All, 

I just received this book.  Its a set of readings and very interesting!

Health inequalities
Lifecourse approaches
Policy Press - Bristol UK

Edited by George Davey Smith, Department of Social Medicine, University of
Bristol

"This book provides the epidemiological background for a new and important
way of thinking about how and when we intervene to reduce health
inequalities. Professor Davey Smith's research on the life course and
health is truly innovative and unique. Many academics from diverse
disciplines will want this as part of their permanent libraries." John
Lynch, School of Public Health, University of Michigan

The lifecourse perspective on adult health and on health inequalities in
particular, is one of the most important recent developments
in epidemiology and public health. This book brings together, in a single
volume, the work of one of the most distinguished
academics in the field. It is the first to specifically take a lifecourse
approach to health inequalities.

Lifecourse approaches to health inequalities:

     presents a large volume of innovative, empirical research which
demonstrates the importance of social disadvantage,
     throughout the lifecourse, with respect to inequalities in life
expectancy, death rates and health status in adulthood;
     contains an extensive overview of lifecourse epidemiology as applied
to socioeconomic differentials in health.

This book is essential reading for academics, students and policy makers
with an interest in public health, epidemiology, health promotion and
social policy.

July 2003
240 x 172mm
592 pages
Paperback ISBN 1 86134 322 1
£25.00 (US$37.50)
Hardback ISBN 1 86134 323 X
£55.00 (US$69.95)

Sincerely,

Dennis Raphael 

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