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5.2 Lessons from 30 years of health inequality research

5.2 Lessons from 30 years of health inequality research

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Alastair Leyland, Anna Pearce and Ruth Dundas discuss the important lessons learned from the past 30 years of health inequality research.


Podcast episode mentioned:

3.3 Health Inequalities Report


Further reading mentioned in the episode:

Link BG, Phelan J. Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. J Health Soc Behav. 1995;Spec No:80-94. PMID: 7560851.

Hilary Graham. Social determinants and their unequal distribution: clarifying policy understandings. Milbank Q. 2004;82(1):101-24. doi: 10.1111/j.0887-378x.2004.00303.x.

Whitehead M, Popay J. Swimming upstream? Taking action on the social determinants of health inequalities. Soc Sci Med. 2010 Oct;71(7):1234-1236. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.004.

Miall N, Fergie G, Pearce A. (2022) Health Inequalities in Scotland: trends in deaths, health and wellbeing, health behaviours, and health services since 2000.

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5.2 Lessons from 30 years of health inequality research

5.2 Lessons from 30 years of health inequality research

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow