PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kawachi, I
AU  - Subramanian, S V
AU  - Almeida-Filho, N
TI  - A glossary for health inequalities
AID  - 10.1136/jech.56.9.647
DP  - 2002 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
PG  - 647--652
VI  - 56
IP  - 9
4099  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/9/647.short
4100  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/9/647.full
SO  - J Epidemiol Community Health2002 Sep 01; 56
AB  - 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?