↓

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily
by billions of legitimate operators.

William Gibson, Neuromancer.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw.

François/phnk

Health inequalities

Contents: Journals, Authors, Research Tools.

Related: contemporary cancer policy.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like to bring some additions to this page.

Journals

Main Titles

Public Health & Epidemiology

Social Sciences & Medicine

Health Services & Economics

Health Services and Policy Research

Public & Social Policy

Authors

Note on search heuristics: use, for instance, "marmot m"[au] AND “socioeconomic factors”[mh]“ to perform a a relatively restrictive PubMed search; "marmot m"[au] AND “inequalities”[tw] will usually send more results, yet less focused.
Note on classifying authors: the by-discipline classification can reveal tricky, since disciplines tend to speak to dialogue their fair lot on the topic of health inequalities. Also, many scientists do not hesitate to speak policy on health inequalities. Last, the list is not exhaustive; authors are ordered alphabetically.

  • Epidemiology: Mel Bartley, David Blane, Paula Braveman, George Davey-Smith, Ichiro Kawachi, Anton E. Kunst, Michael Marmot, Johan P. Mackenbach, Margaret Whitehead, Richard G. Wilkinson.
  • Medical sociology: Nancy Krieger, Sally J. Macintyre.
  • Public health policy: Mark Exworthy, Hilary Graham.
  • History of medicine: Virginia Berridge, Dorothy Porter.
  • Health economics: Angus Deaton, van Doorslaer, McFadden, Andrew Wagstaff.
  • General health policy: Rob Baggott, Christopher Ham, Rudolf Klein, Michael Moran.
  • French authors: Pierre Aïach, Pierre Chauvin, Guy Desplanques, Didier Fassin, Marcel Goldberg, Annette Leclerc, France Lert, Annie Thébaud-Mony.

Research tools

This is an eclectic selection of tools I used to learn more about health inequalities when writing my dissertation. It is a selection, which means I cut some sources of information which produced only redundant information, such as Harvard World Health News for example. Needless to say you will very soon get as swamped as I was if you try to read every single bit of information on health inequalities. This topic can be simply not be studied exhaustively or as a whole.

Publications databases

Research networks

All research networks are root-located by the LSE.

Universities, Schools & Institutes

Software

Applications listed below are freeware and runs on Mac OS X, since this is what I run at home. I have written a longer text on indispensable applications for Mac OS X.