Health Status and Social Life

David Reisman

Chapter 3 in The Political Economy of Health Care, 1993, pp 29-56 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The first section of the previous chapter was headed Equality, Equity and Care. It sought to examine the relationship between levelling and fairness and to suggest reasons why equal treatment for equal need is so often regarded as a collective concern in the area of health even in societies which regard equality of access to cinema tickets and motor cars with the profoundest of reservations. It was followed by a second section which, entitled Social Status and Health Status, considered the class-correlated bias of morbidity and mortality. The thesis of that second section was that some inequalities are no doubt genetically-based and perhaps even unavoidable, but that other inequalities would appear to be the direct consequence of social life and social patterning.

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Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230378308_3

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