Lee Humber

Vital Signs

The Deadly Costs of Health Inequality

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Produktbeschreibung

As standards of healthcare decline, so do our bodies; we need a radical vision for healthcare

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9780745338323
• ISBN-10: 0745338321
• Artikelnr.: 54750281

Autorenporträt

Lee Humber is a Tutor in Health and Social Care and Tutor in Global Labour and Social Change at Ruskin College, Oxford. He has contributed to numerous journals including Critical and Radical Social Work and Disability and Society. He is the author of Vital Signs: The Deadly Costs of Health Inequality (Pluto, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
1. Introduction
2. Healthcare in the Age of Neoliberalism
3. Mergers, Monopolies and the 'Rising Billions'
4. The Social Determinants of Health
5. The 'Inequality Thesis'
6. Ageing Populations?
7. Health, Power and Paradigms
8. Legislating for Better Health?
9. Who's WHO?
10. The National Health Service: A Revolution Half Made?
11. Conclusion
Notes
Index