Publisher's Synopsis
Illustrated by a wide range of international case studies, this distinguished team of authors examine the issue of health inequalities in the developed world from a specifically geographical perspective. They prove that 'place' is an important factor in health inequality and offer an original perspective on and insight into one of the major problems of the Western world. - - The recently published Acheson Report re-emphasized the importance of this issue by showing that, in Britain at least, health inequalities between sub-groups of the population not only still exist, but that the health gap is widening between the better- and worse-off in society. While there has been growing recognition of the impact 'place' makes to the distribution of mortality and morbidity, this is the first volume which focuses specifically on this point.
