Forwarded Message:
From: Nancy Krieger <[log in to unmask]>

Hi everyone--
        A heads up re two new significant publications to be released
officially on December 2, 1999:

1) Gordon D, Shaw M, Dorling D, Davey Smith G. Inequalities in health:
   The evidence presented to the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities
   in Health, chaired by Sir Donald Acheson. Bristol, UK: The Policy
   Press, University of Bristol, 1999.
        "This book presents 17 chapters of evidence commissioned by
         the Acheson Inquiry to inform their work. It provides a
         `state of the art' review, by leading experts, into
         aspects of inequalities in health ..."
   Cost: 18.99 pounds

2) Shaw M, Dorling D, Gordon D, Davey Smith G. The widening gap: health
   inequalities and policy in Britain. Bristol, UK: Policy Press,
   University of Bristol, 1999.
        "This book presents new evidence (which was not available to
         the government's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in
         Health) on the size of the gap, and the extent to which the
         gap is widening ... It challenges wheter the government is
         concerned enough about reducing inequalities and highlights
         the living conditions of the million people living in the
         least healthy areas of Britain. It presents explanations for
         the widening health gap ... the authors put forward social
         policies which will reduce the health gap in the future"
     Cost: 16.99 pounds

These books can be ordered through The Policy Press:

        email:  [log in to unmask]
        web:    http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Publications/TPP/

        tel:    +44 (0) 117 954 6800
        fax:    +44 (0) 117 973 7308

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