Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity
- Author/Editor(s):
- Sarah Salway, Lucinda Platt, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss, Elizabeth Bayliss
- Format:
- Paperback , 104 pages , 297 x 210 mm
- ISBN
- 9781861349934
- Published:
- 30 Apr 2007
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About This Book
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.
Author Biography
Sarah Salway is Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University. Lucinda Platt is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. Punita Chowbey is Research Associate, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield. Kaveri Harriss is a doctoral student in the Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Elizabeth Bayliss is Executive Director, Social Action for Health.Contents
Executive summary
Background and methodology
Family, community and society: placing long-term health conditions in context
Individual experiences of long-term ill-health: barriers and supports to 'resilience'
Long-term health conditions and employment
Long-term health conditions and welfare benefits
Long-term health conditions and social participation
Relevance of findings for national policy.
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