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Getting Better : The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities
| Getting Better : The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities |
| Autore | Bambra Clare |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LynchJulia
E. SmithKatherine |
| Soggetto topico | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy |
| ISBN | 1-4473-7288-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Getting Better The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The holy grail of reducing health inequalities -- Unfair and avoidable: health inequalities, inequities and disparities -- Looking upstream: politics, policies and health inequalities -- The long view: trends in health inequalities over the 20th and 21st centuries -- The rest of the book -- 2 The Great Society: social reform and health inequalities in the United States -- What came before: poverty and inequality in a land of plenty -- The Great Society as a war on inequality -- Outcomes of the Great Society -- The overall impact -- Measuring the impact of specific Great Society policies on health -- Conclusion -- 3 Vote early, vote often: democratisation in Brazil and health inequalities -- Brazil's intersecting health inequalities -- The 1964 coup and unequal economic gains under military dictatorship -- Brazil's transition to democracy: a health 'miracle'? -- Social, economic and health policy change under democracy -- Introducing a right to health -- Pro-poor cash transfer programmes linked to health and education -- Employment expansion and minimum wage increases -- Civic participation -- Tackling commercial determinants of health -- Housing and land reform -- How did these policies affect health inequalities? -- Conclusion -- 4 What belongs together will grow together: German reunification and health inequalities -- East and West: Germany 1945-90 -- Reunification: what belongs together will grow together -- Economic reunification -- Improved living and working conditions -- Better healthcare services -- Democratisation and political incorporation -- The post-communist mortality crisis -- Conclusion.
5 Things can only get better: England's Health Inequalities Strategy -- Shock therapy: Thatcherism and health inequalities, 1979 to 1997 -- Thatcherism and neoliberalism in the UK -- Thatcherism and the determinants of health -- Tough on the causes? New Labour and health inequalities 1997-2010 -- Was the English Health Inequalities Strategy successful? -- Conclusion: Could more have been done? -- 6 Waxing and waning: the four levellers of health inequalities -- Waxing social and political incorporation contribute to reducing health inequalities -- The United States of America -- Brazil -- Germany -- England -- Levelling mechanisms -- Waning welfare and political exclusion contribute to increases in health inequalities -- The United States: sunset over the Great Society -- Brazil: democratic fragility in the shadows of military dictatorship -- Germany: a new East-West divide and the resurgence of the far right -- All in it together? Austerity and health inequalities in England since 2010 -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: The politics of health inequalities -- Health inequality leveller 1: welfare state expansion -- Health inequality leveller 2: improved healthcare access -- Health inequality leveller 3: reduced income inequalities -- Health inequality leveller 4: enhanced democratic participation -- What can we conclude about the policies required to reduce health inequalities? -- What precedes periods of waxing and waning? -- If we want to reduce health inequalities, what can we do? -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910987825703321 |
Bambra Clare
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| Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2025 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Getting Better
| Getting Better |
| Autore | Bambra Clare |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Policy Press, 2025 |
| ISBN | 1-4473-7287-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911002569803321 |
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Bambra Clare
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| Policy Press, 2025 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Getting Better : The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities
| Getting Better : The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities |
| Autore | Bambra Clare |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LynchJulia
E. SmithKatherine |
| Soggetto topico | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy |
| ISBN | 1-4473-7288-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Getting Better The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The holy grail of reducing health inequalities -- Unfair and avoidable: health inequalities, inequities and disparities -- Looking upstream: politics, policies and health inequalities -- The long view: trends in health inequalities over the 20th and 21st centuries -- The rest of the book -- 2 The Great Society: social reform and health inequalities in the United States -- What came before: poverty and inequality in a land of plenty -- The Great Society as a war on inequality -- Outcomes of the Great Society -- The overall impact -- Measuring the impact of specific Great Society policies on health -- Conclusion -- 3 Vote early, vote often: democratisation in Brazil and health inequalities -- Brazil's intersecting health inequalities -- The 1964 coup and unequal economic gains under military dictatorship -- Brazil's transition to democracy: a health 'miracle'? -- Social, economic and health policy change under democracy -- Introducing a right to health -- Pro-poor cash transfer programmes linked to health and education -- Employment expansion and minimum wage increases -- Civic participation -- Tackling commercial determinants of health -- Housing and land reform -- How did these policies affect health inequalities? -- Conclusion -- 4 What belongs together will grow together: German reunification and health inequalities -- East and West: Germany 1945-90 -- Reunification: what belongs together will grow together -- Economic reunification -- Improved living and working conditions -- Better healthcare services -- Democratisation and political incorporation -- The post-communist mortality crisis -- Conclusion.
5 Things can only get better: England's Health Inequalities Strategy -- Shock therapy: Thatcherism and health inequalities, 1979 to 1997 -- Thatcherism and neoliberalism in the UK -- Thatcherism and the determinants of health -- Tough on the causes? New Labour and health inequalities 1997-2010 -- Was the English Health Inequalities Strategy successful? -- Conclusion: Could more have been done? -- 6 Waxing and waning: the four levellers of health inequalities -- Waxing social and political incorporation contribute to reducing health inequalities -- The United States of America -- Brazil -- Germany -- England -- Levelling mechanisms -- Waning welfare and political exclusion contribute to increases in health inequalities -- The United States: sunset over the Great Society -- Brazil: democratic fragility in the shadows of military dictatorship -- Germany: a new East-West divide and the resurgence of the far right -- All in it together? Austerity and health inequalities in England since 2010 -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: The politics of health inequalities -- Health inequality leveller 1: welfare state expansion -- Health inequality leveller 2: improved healthcare access -- Health inequality leveller 3: reduced income inequalities -- Health inequality leveller 4: enhanced democratic participation -- What can we conclude about the policies required to reduce health inequalities? -- What precedes periods of waxing and waning? -- If we want to reduce health inequalities, what can we do? -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996649867403316 |
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Bambra Clare
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| Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2025 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Health in hard times : austerity and health inequalities / / edited by Clare Bambra
| Health in hard times : austerity and health inequalities / / edited by Clare Bambra |
| Autore | Bambra Clare |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol, : Policy Press, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables; digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 362.10941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Public health - England - Stockton-on-Tees
Social status - England - Stockton-on-Tees |
| Soggetto non controllato |
austerity
geography health inequality reform social policy sociology |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Local Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity -- Austerity Then and Now -- Placing Health in Austerity -- How the Other Half Live -- Divided Lives -- Minding the Gap -- Mothers in Austerity -- Conclusion: Health in Hard Times -- Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Austerity and health inequalities |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910322658703321 |
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Bambra Clare
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| Bristol, : Policy Press, 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Health in hard times : austerity and health inequalities / / edited by Clare Bambra
| Health in hard times : austerity and health inequalities / / edited by Clare Bambra |
| Autore | Bambra Clare |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol, : Policy Press, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables; digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 362.10941 |
| Soggetto topico |
Public health - England - Stockton-on-Tees
Social status - England - Stockton-on-Tees |
| Soggetto non controllato |
austerity
geography health inequality reform social policy sociology |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Local Health Inequalities in an Age of Austerity -- Austerity Then and Now -- Placing Health in Austerity -- How the Other Half Live -- Divided Lives -- Minding the Gap -- Mothers in Austerity -- Conclusion: Health in Hard Times -- Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Austerity and health inequalities |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996509966603316 |
|
Bambra Clare
|
||
| Bristol, : Policy Press, 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
| ||