Health Promotion International, Vol. 15, No. 2, 179-180,
June 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000
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The Sociology of Health Inequalities
National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, The Australian National University, Australia
A substantial body of research documents the socioeconomic ‘gradient’ in which worse health outcomes are associated with lower positions in the hierarchies of income, education and occupational status. The Black report (Black, 1980
) was not the first major work to address this issue, but it was a milestone, and since it appeared, publishing on the topic has increased considerably, beginning with a trickle during the 1980s and becoming a flood since the mid 1990s. In the circumstances of such heightened interest and output, edited collections become both inevitable and necessary. The volume under review joins (at least) two others, also high quality, published in the last two years [(Keating and Hertzman, 1999): see review this
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