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Title Working for equality in health / edited by Paul Bywaters and Eileen McLeod
Published London : New York : Routledge, 1996

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 MELB  362.1 Byw/Wfe  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 220 pages ; 23 cm
Series The state of welfare
State of welfare.
Contents 1. Introduction / Pam Bywaters and Eileen McLeod -- 2. Building a poverty perspective into health visiting practice / Clare Blackburn -- 3. Health care for older people: ageism and equality / Desmond O'Neill -- 4. Can social work deliver on health? / Paul Bywaters and Eileen McLeod -- 5. Caught in the caring trap: the health of children who care / Jo Aldridge and Saul Becker -- 6. Service users acting as agents of change / Clare Evans -- 7. Localities and inequalities: locality management in the inner-city / Rosie Weaver -- 8. Local authorities servicing health: rediscovering an historic role / Simon Sedgwick-Jell -- 9. Beyond 'us and them': trade unions and equality in community care for users and workers / Mick Carpenter -- 10. Reducing child health inequalities: insights and strategies for health workers / Nick Spencer -- 11. Researching women's health work: a study of the lifestyles of mothers on income support / Hilary Graham
12. Developing with Black and minority ethnic communities, health promotion strategies which address social inequalities / Jenny Douglas -- 13. The politics of AIDS treatment information activism: a partisan view / Simon Watney
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Discrimination in medical care -- Great Britain.
Equality -- Great Britain.
Health services accessibility -- Great Britain.
Medical social work -- Great Britain.
People with social disabilities -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
Poor -- Medical care -- Great Britain.
Right to health -- Great Britain.
Author Bywaters, Paul, 1945-
McLeod, Eileen.
LC no. 95025987
ISBN 0415124654
0415124662 (paperback)