Social inequality and public health - 9781847423214

Social inequality and public healthAuthor(s): Salvatore J. Babones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781847423214, 978-1847423214\nSynopsis\nPublic health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This 'new public health' identifies how social, economic and political factors affect the level and distribution of individual health, through their effects on individual behaviours, the social groups people belong to, the character of relationships to others and the characteristics of the societies in which people live. The rising social inequalities that can be seen in nearly every country in the world today present not just a moral danger, but a mortal danger as well.\n\n\""Social inequality and public health\"" brings together the latest research findings from some of the most respecte.