
Social inequality and public health
Public health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This ''new public health'' identifies how social, economic and political factors affect the level and distribution of individual health, through their effects on individual behaviours, the social groups peopl...
Public health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This ''new public health'' identifies how social, economic and political factors affect the level and distribution of individual health, through their effects on individual behaviours, the social groups peopl...