Gender, the State and a Lifetime of Experience: Understanding Health Inequality among Older Adults in Britain

There is a well-established relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and health among older adults, but a short-coming of existing research is its failure to link the SEP-health relationship in later life to the gendered histories of work and family life, or the policy contexts in which the...

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Main Author: Corna, Laurie Marie
Other Authors: McDonough, Peggy
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31723