The wealthy get healthy, the poor get poorly? Lay perceptions of health inequalities

Exploring Interpretation of Complexity and Typicality in Narratives and Statistical Images about the Social Determinants of Health

“…People of different social status often offer different responses to questioning about the causes of poor and unequal health (Blaxter, 1997;Davidson, Kitzinger, & Hunt, 2006;Popay et al, 2003). As such, separating groups by gender, income, or race/ethnicity might have yielded different findings.…”

“…As such, separating groups by gender, income, or race/ethnicity might have yielded different findings. Davidson et al (2006) have argued that focus groups are particularly conducive to participants engaging with populationlevel issues because they encourage the discussion of shared Downloaded by [National Pingtung University of Science and Technology] at 11:19 04 February 2015 experiences. Consequently, group conversations might have elicited a greater appreciation of SDH than might have been voiced in solo interviews.…”

The psychosocial versus material hypothesis to explain observed inequality in disability among older adults: data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study

“…14 Some qualitative data support this argument. 31 Many of the scales that are used to assess the negative feelings evoked by psychosocial factors, when used to assess the effects of perceived disadvantage on health outcomes, will inevitably be confounded by the social circumstances that tend to be an intrinsic part of the measurement. 32 We argue that our measure of perceived financial hardship is an appropriate one with which to examine at least one aspect of the psychosocial hypothesis, which is based on respondents' own perceptions of relative wealth compared with other people in Britain at that time and is independent of employment, housing or education.…”

Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach

“…The aim of such research is to draw public attention to the impact of structural and material inequalities on people's health, an aim that appears to be underpinned by an assumption that, if decision makers and the public only knew more about the structural and material inequalities underlying health inequalities, they would do more to address them. Such an assumption belies the small number of in-depth, qualitative studies of public understandings of health inequalities, which demonstrate that many of the communities most negatively affected by health inequalities already have a good understanding of the factors and processes that contribute to their communities poor health (for example, Popay et al, 2003;Davidson et al, 2006) To quote George (1976, p. 289), those living in poverty already 'know what is wrong with their lives'. The issue, then, is what we, collectively, might do about this.…”