What works in tackling health inequalities? Pathways, policies and practice through the lifecourse
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The title ‘What works in tackling health inequalities?’ is actually too narrow to do justice to the wealth of information that can be found in this book. A more accurate description would have been: ‘What do we know about the scale of the problem of health inequalities, about pathways giving rise to these inequalities and about policy interventions to address those pathways?’ But admittedly, this would not have been an equally ‘catchy’ title.
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