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Updating Edwin Chadwick's seminal work on geographical inequalities by occupation

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To honour the 175th anniversary of Edwin Chadwick's seminal ‘Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Poor’, we update Chadwick's famous analysis of geographical differences in occupational based inequalities. Much of the field of Health Geography owes both its direction of development and its initial impetus to his 1842 report. The report presented evidence for the importance of local context to health, with individuals of the lowest occupations in Rutland living longer than indivi...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.055

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SOGE
Sub department:
Geography
Oxford college:
St Peter's College
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Mitchell, R
Grant:
MC_UU_12017-10
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Social Science and Medicine Journal website
Volume:
197
Pages:
59-62
Publication date:
2017-12-01
Acceptance date:
2017-11-29
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EISSN:
0277-9536
ISSN:
0277-9536
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pubs:811340
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uuid:6851af4d-bef2-43dd-9776-baf693ea1526
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pubs:811340
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811340
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2017-12-15

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