Health inequalities : lifecourse approaches

Health inequalities: Lifecourse approaches
Contents
List of co-authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: lifecourse approaches to health inequalities
Section I: Patterns of health inequality
	Health inequalities in Britain: continuing increases up to the end of the 20th century
	Shrinking areas and mortality
	Population change and mortality in men and women
	Area-based measures of social and economic circumstances: cause-specific mortality patterns depend on the choice of index
	Socioeconomic differentials in mortality risk among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: Part I – results for 300,685 white men
	Socioeconomic differentials in mortality risk among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: Part II – results for 20,224 black men
	Individual social class, area-based deprivation, cardiovascular disease risk-factors and mortality: the Renfrew and Paisley study
	Is control at work the key to socioeconomic gradients in mortality?
Section II: Voting and mortality
	“I’m all right, John”: voting patterns and mortality in England and Wales, 1981-92
	Association between voting patterns and mortality remains
	Analysis of trends in premature mortality by Labour voting in the 1997 General Election
Section III: The Whitehall Study
	Magnitude and causes of socioeconomic differentials in mortality: further evidence from the Whitehall Study
	Confounding of occupation and smoking: its magnitude and consequences
	Socioeconomic differentials in cancer among men
Section IV: Health and lifetime social circumstances: the Collaborative Study
	Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study
	Education and occupational social class: which is the more important indicator of mortality risk?
	Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood and cause-specific adult mortality: prospective observational study
	Socioeconomic factors as determinants of mortality
	Lifecourse socioeconomic and behavioural influences on cardiovascular disease mortality: the Collaborative Study
Section V: Further lifecourse influences on health
	Social circumstances in childhood and cardiovascular disease mortality: prospective observational study of Glasgow University students
	Childhood socioeconomic position and adult cardiovascular mortality: the Boyd Orr cohort
	Height and risk of death among men and women: aetiological implications of associations with cardiorespiratory disease and cancer mortality
	Leg length, insulin resistance, and coronary heart disease risk: the Caerphilly Study
Section VI: Ethnicity and health inequalities
	Ethnic inequalities in health: a review of UK epidemiological evidence
	Learning to live with complexity: ethnicity, socioeconomic position, and health in Britain and the US
	Mortality differentials between black and white men in the US: contribution of income and other risk factors among men screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT)
Section VII: Diversions
	Socioeconomic differentials in the mortality of pets: probably reflect the same differences in material circumstances as in their owners
	Death in Hollywood: life-style excess, social comparisons or publication bias?
	Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly Cohort Study
	Health, health services and health politics in Britain: 1952-2002-2052
Section VIII: Health inequalities – past and present
	Socioeconomic differentials in mortality: evidence from Glasgow graveyards
	The ghost of Christmas past: the health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991
	Does early nutrition affect later health? Views from the 1930s and 1980s
Section IX: Social inequality and population health
	Income inequality and mortality: why are they related?
	Understanding it all: health, meta-theories, and mortality trends
Section X: Reducing health inequalities, now and in the future
	The widening health gap: what are the solutions?
	Inequalities in health: what is happening and what can be done?
	How policy informs the evidence – ‘evidence-based’ thinking can lead to debased policy making
	Rationing for health equity: is it necessary?
Afterword: Still wanting to be James Dean
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