Getting Better
The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities
By Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch and Katherine E. Smith
Published
May 1, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1447372868Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
May 1, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1447372875Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
May 1, 2025Page count
176 pagesISBN
978-1447372882Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
Getting Better
Clare Bambra is Professor of Public Health, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University.
Katherine Smith is Professor of Public Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde.
Julia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
1. Introduction: Reducing Health Inequalities
2. The Great Society: Social Reform and Health Inequalities in the USA
3. Vote Early, Vote Often: Democratisation in Brazil and Health Inequalities
4. What Belongs Together Will Grow Together: German Reunification and Health Inequalities
5. Things Can Only Get Better: England’s National Health Inequalities Strategy
6. Waxing and Waning: The Three Levellers of Health Inequalities
7. Conclusion: The Politics of Health Inequalities
