title: Health and Deprivation P Townsend P Phillimore A Beattie Health and Deprivation Published by Croom Helm 212pp £19.95 0-7099-4351-2 [Formula: see text].
abstract: Definitions of health range from absence of disease [Illegible Word] state of complete men™ physical and social well being. Are they individual? To what extent do wider social problems, eg. employment status, affect health Is health related to material deprivation? If so, how do we measure it?