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Health inequalities and the social gradient

Health inequalities and the social gradient

Concept map showing patterns and trends in health and illness at the centre, linked to artefact, self-selection, cultural or behavioural, material, and access or provision explanations, with class, income, gender, ethnicity, age, region and disability around the edge

Sociologists argue that health is socially distributed, not random. Chances of illness, recovery and early death vary by class, income, gender, ethnicity, age, region and disability.

Explanations for patterns and trends in health and illness Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Sociology
  3. /Explanations for patterns and trends in health and illness

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