Theorising social class and its application to the study of health inequalities

• Main Authors: Gerry McCartney (Author), Mel Bartley (Author), Ruth Dundas (Author), Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi (Author), Rich Mitchell (Author), Frank Popham (Author), David Walsh (Author), Welcome Wami (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The literature on health inequalities often uses measures of socio-economic position pragmatically to rank the population to describe inequalities in health rather than to understand social and economic relationships between groups. Theoretical considerations about the meaning of different measures,...