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1. Health and Inequality

   Edited by Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson

   Series: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare

   Some groups of people are healthier than others. Overwhelmingly, for almost all kinds of morbidity and mortality, groups at the bottom of the social scale are less healthy than those at the top. But this simple observation describes a complex phenomenon that has become a major focus of research,...

   Published October 13th 2008 by Routledge
2. Property Development

   5th Edition

   By Sara Wilkinson, Richard Reed, Richard Reed

   David Cadman’s Property Development has long been the standard textbook on the commercial property development process in the UK, and with this fifth edition the book is brought completely up to date for a new generation of readers. Accessible to students of all disciplines within the built...

   Published June 29th 2008 by Routledge
3. Louis XIV

   By Richard Wilkinson

   Series: Routledge Historical Biographies

   'Wilkinson's prose is vigorous, direct, and often very funny ... There is not a dull page in the book. At the same time, its purpose is entirely serious ... There could scarcely be a better way of drawing the non-specialist reader into the intricate world of seventeenth-century France.' – History...

   Published April 9th 2007 by Routledge
4. The Impact of Inequality

   How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

   By Richard G. Wilkinson

   In this book, pioneering social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, shows how inequality affects social relations and well-being. In wealthy countries, health is not simply a matter of material circumstances and access to health care; it is also how your relationships and social standing make you...

   Published June 8th 2005 by Routledge
5. The Impact Of Inequality

   By Richard Wilkinson

   Published May 26th 2005 by Routledge
6. Outcome Measures in Alzheimer's Disease

   By Jeffrey L Cummings, Richard Harvey, Simon Lovestone, Ian McKeith, David Wilkinson

   This book considers outcome measures relevant for Alzheimer's disease, identifies suitable assessment tools and considers the relative merits of each. Each section is written by an internationally respected opinion leader making this authoritative guide an important addition to the literature in...

   Published May 24th 1999 by CRC Press
7. Unhealthy Societies

   The Afflictions of Inequality

   By Richard G. Wilkinson

   Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates. But why? How can smaller income differences raise...

   Published September 11th 1996 by Routledge
8. Health and Social Organization

   Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century

   Edited by David Blane, Eric Brunner, Richard Wilkinson

   There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic growth, income distribution, consumption, work oganisation, unemployment and job...

   Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge