http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/56/9/647

In this glossary, the authors address eight key questions pertinent to health inequalities: 1) Distinction between health inequality and health inequity. 2)Assess health inequalities. 3)Reflect the effects of poverty, or generated by the socioeconomic gradient. 4)Mediated by material deprivation or by psychosocial mechanisms 5)Income on health 6)Reflection of health inequalities between social groups or suggestion of a contextual effect of place. 7)*The contribution of the life course to health inequalities *kinds of inequality to be studied.(Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2002;56:647-652) Sign in is necessery.