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What works in tackling health inequalities?
In recent years, tackling health inequalities has become a key policy objective in the UK. However, doubts remain about how best to translate broad policy recommendations into …
Tackling inequalities
The growing divide between the poor and the rich is the most significant social change to have occurred during the last few decades. The new Labour government inherited a country …
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK
How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? …
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK
The largest UK research study on poverty and social exclusion ever conducted reveals startling levels of deprivation. 18m people are unable to afford adequate housing; 14m can’t …
Poverty and social exclusion in Britain
This book is the most authoritative study of poverty and social exclusion in Britain at the start of the 21st century. It reports on the most comprehensive survey of poverty and …
Poverty and Insecurity
Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013 How do men and women get by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? …
Poverty, inequality and health in Britain: 1800-2000
Inequalities in health, in terms of both empirical evidence and policies to tackle their reduction, are currently high on the research and political agendas. This reader provides …
Patterns of poverty across Europe
It is widely accepted that income poverty should be defined in relative terms - but relative to where? Almost all household poverty statistics count the number of poor in relation …
On the margins of inclusion
On the margins of inclusion explores the notion of 'social exclusion' from the perspective of those deemed to be 'socially excluded' and provides a compelling and vivid portrait of …
Inequalities in health
The Acheson Inquiry was an important government backed examination into inequalities in health. This book presents all 17 chapters of evidence commissioned by the Acheson Inquiry …
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being
Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, with hundreds of millions of children around the world enduring tremendous suffering and deprivation of their most basic …
Families and Poverty
The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the UK have meant that poverty and income management continue to be of great importance for intellectual, public and policy …