Main contents
1. The Political Economy of
Health and Welfare
David A. Coleman and Nicholas H. Dimsdale
PART I: ECONOMICS, POVERTY AND EQUALITY
2. Inheritance, Chance and
Choice in the Transmission of Poverty
Nicola Madge
3. Poverty as a Determinant of
Inequality
Partha Dasgupta
4. The Galton Lecture for 1985:
Inequality of Economic Opportunity
Anthony F. Shorrocks
PART II: POPULATION, WELFARE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
5. Population Growth and
Economic Development
A. P. Thirlwall
6. Welfare and the Management
of Demographic Uncertainty
Richard M. Smith
7. The Welfare Crisis in an
Ageing Population
John A. Kay
PART III: ECONOMICS AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH
8. The Performance of Health
Services
Walter W. Holland and Ellie Breeze
9. Prevention versus Cure: Use
of Resources in the National Health Service
Roy M. Acheson
10. Public Health and the
Extension of Life Expectancy in England and Wales, 1901-60
J. M. Winter
PART IV: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BARRIERS TO HEALTH
11. Health, Inequality and
Social Structure
Richard G. Wilkinson
12. Disadvantage and Mortality:
New Evidence from the OPCS Longitudinal Study
A. J. Fox and D. A. Leon