| Long-Term Ill Health, Poverty and Ethnicity Contributor(s): Salway, Sarah (Author), Platt, Lucinda (Author), Chowbey, Punita (Author) |
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ISBN: 1861349939 ISBN-13: 9781861349934 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2007 Annotation: Long-term health conditions affect a large proportion of working-age adults in Britain, often limiting daily activities, employment chances, and incomes. This heavy burden of long-term ill-health is now of major policy concern across the UK health and social welfare arenas. Government interventions aim to increase self-reliance among those with long-term ill-health and reduce the costs to the state under such conditions. However, protecting individuals and families from the risk of poverty while experiencing long-term ill-health is not receiving the attention deserved. Research has highlighted the association between long-term ill-health and the risk of poverty, and has recognized the far-reaching effects that such health conditions can have on individuals and their families. Less is known about the pathways that link ill-health to poverty or how they may be broken. In particular, little attention has been given to social participation, access to non-labor income, and other knock-on ef |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Dewey: 362.108 |
| LCCN: 2008353262 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 11.6" (0.75 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Chronic ill-health is now recognised as a major public health and social welfare issue, with significant new policy initiatives in recent months. This report presents findings from a detailed new investigation into the experiences of individuals living with long-term ill-health and their families. New in-depth qualitative material is combined with secondary analyses of national datasets to examine the ways in which long-term ill-health impacts upon different dimensions of poverty. The report explores the links between long-term ill-health and three inter-related areas: employment, welfare benefits and social participation and social support. It covers an ethnically diverse sample in order to explore, though not assume, the relevance of ethnicity for the experience and consequences of long-term ill-health and identifies ways in which current UK health and social policy might better serve the needs of people with long-term health conditions. This accessible report is of importance to policy-makers and practitioners working across the public health and social welfare arenas. The findings are of relevance to a wide range of programme areas including: access to employment, welfare benefits, chronic illness self-management (Expert Patients Programmes) and ethnic minority disadvantage. Researchers and students will also find the report of interest. |