Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities: A Relational Approach

by Darrin Hodgetts and Ottilie Stolte

When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health. Yet although these relationships exist, they undermine a more socio-economic understanding of health. This timely book takes a critical perspective to argue that urban poverty and health inequalities are intimately interconnected, and that the increasing disparity between rich and poor will necessarily exacerbate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138124362
• ISBN13: 9781138124363
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"