TY - JOUR T1 - A glossary for health inequalities JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 647 LP - 652 DO - 10.1136/jech.56.9.647 VL - 56 IS - 9 AU - I Kawachi AU - S V Subramanian AU - N Almeida-Filho Y1 - 2002/09/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/9/647.abstract N2 - In this glossary, the authors address eight key questions pertinent to health inequalities: (1) What is the distinction between health inequality and health inequity?; (2) Should we assess health inequalities themselves, or social group inequalities in health?; (3) Do health inequalities mainly reflect the effects of poverty, or are they generated by the socioeconomic gradient?; (4) Are health inequalities mediated by material deprivation or by psychosocial mechanisms?; (5) Is there an effect of relative income on health, separate from the effects of absolute income?; (6) Do health inequalities between places simply reflect health inequalities between social groups or, more significantly, do they suggest a contextual effect of place?; (7) What is the contribution of the lifecourse to health inequalities?; (8) What kinds of inequality should we study? ER -