Health Divides: Where You Live Can Kill You

Clare Bambra

doi:10.46692/9781447330387

Clare Bambra examines the social, environmental, economic and political causes of health inequalities, how they have evolved over time and what they are like today. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you.

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Dedication
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List of figures, tables and boxes
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About the author
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Foreword by Danny Dorling
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Preface
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1 - Health divides
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2 - From King Cholera to the ‘c’ word
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3 - In sickness and in health
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4 - Placing life and death
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5 - It’s the (political) economy
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6 - Too little, too late
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7 - Past, present, future
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Notes
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References
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Index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of figures, tables and boxes
pp vi-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-x

About the author
pp xi-xi

Foreword by Danny Dorling
pp xii-xiii

Preface
pp xiv-xvi

1 - Health divides
pp 1-30

2 - From King Cholera to the ‘c’ word
pp 31-56

3 - In sickness and in health
pp 57-96

4 - Placing life and death
pp 97-136

5 - It’s the (political) economy
pp 137-182

6 - Too little, too late
pp 183-206

7 - Past, present, future
pp 207-224

Notes
pp 225-258

References
pp 259-290

Index
pp 291-304

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