ENGL 660 -- Sample Essay Reviews (Spring 2011).
To mark one year since the publication of 'Fair Society Healthy Lives', the Marmot Review Team and the London Health Observatory produced baseline figures for some key indicators of the social determinants of health, health outcomes and social inequality that correspond, as closely as is currently possible, to the indicators proposed in Fair.In 2010, The Marmot Review emphasized that insufficient funds to lead a healthy life is a significant cause of health inequalities (p. 29) 29) Although health-damaging behaviors are more common among low groups, these groups also lack: adequate income, decent housing and secure employment.The United Kingdom’s long tradition of research on health inequalities. The UK is a high-income society, where greater prosperity and better overall health have been successfully attained without narrowing health inequalities, it can therefore be taken as an example for other societies that manifest similar trends in inequalities (Graham, 2009).
Below are links to some sample essay reviews, some that are published and some that are in response to a similar assignment for other graduate courses. The published examples all review books rather than articles, but the format (as you'll see) is generally the same: An introductory paragraph which.HEALTH INEQUALITIES INTRODUCTION. The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast different sociological perspectives of health and illness. The definition of health, rather than being absolute is always relative and it differs from person to person. According to the WHO: “Health is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being.
Launched by the Institute of Health Equity, the Marmot Indicators 2015 were a new set of indicators of the social determinants of health, health outcomes and social inequality, that broadly corresponded to the six policy recommendations proposed in Fair Society, Healthy Lives: Give every child the best start in life.
