David Blane

Tackling health inequalities since the Acheson Inquiry

In 1997 the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health led by Sir Donald Acheson was commissioned to conduct a review of the latest available information on inequalities in health and to identify priority areas for future policy development to reduce health inequalities.Tackling health inequali...

Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century

There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic growth, income distribution, consumption, work oganisation, unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, educati...

A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions (Life Course Research and Social Policies)

This book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life. It provides findings that assess the role of biological and social transitions on health status over time.The essays examine a wide range of health iss...

The Sociology of Health Inequalities (Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs)

Leading researchers in the social sciences describe and explain the unequal chances of long and healthy life between social groups, ethnic groups, men and women and geographical areas.

The Sociology of Health Inequalities