Social Determinants of Health

A Comparative Approach
2. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-903220-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 181 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

The only text that accessibly examines the social determinants of health from a Canadian, contemporary, and comparative perspective

Featuring thought-provoking Canadian and international examples throughout, this text takes a macro-level look at the many ways in which social factors - such as income, education, employment, gender, and support systems - interact to determine health across the lifespan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: The Conventional Understanding of Health and Its Alternative

- How We Understand Threats to Our Health

- A New Perspective on Our Health: Rise of an Alternative View

- Health Inequalities

- The Basis of Health Inequalities

- What Lies Ahead

- 1. Thinking about Individual and Population Health

- Synopsis

- Levels of Analysis

- Individual-Level Analysis of Health and Disease

- Origins of Population Health

- Some Notes on Terms

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 2. Health Care Services and Health Research Methods NEW

- Synopsis

- Health Care as a Determinant of Health

- Health Care or Health?

- Issues of Access and Equity

- Public Health

- Health Research Methods

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 3. Population Health and Social Epidemiology

- Synopsis

- The Emergence of the Field Social Epidemiology

- Geoffrey Rose and the Population-Health Perspective

- The Impact of Recent Studies on Thinking about Health

- The Gradient in Health

- The Building Blocks of Theory

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 4. Income, Inequality, and Health

- Synopsis

- Income and Health

- The Gradient in Health

- Understanding the Complex Relationship between Income and Health

- The Inequality Hypothesis: Preston, Rodgers, Kaplan, and Wilkinson

- The Inequality Hypothesis Under Assault

- What Are We to Make of the Literature on Inequality and Health?

- The Importance of Keeping Materialist Arguments Separate from Ones about Hierarchy and Control

- Other Explanations for the Correlation between Social Inequality and Health

- Income and Income Distribution

- Wealth

- Public Programs and Services

- Poverty and Its Mitigation

- Poverty Mitigation: Social Assistance or Welfare

- Lower Taxes or More Public Spending?

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 5. Childhood and the Transition to Adulthood

- Synopsis

- Early Childhood

- Animal Studies

- Contributions from Psychology

- Early Childhood Policy

- A Note on the Public School System

- Older Children and Teens

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 6. Gender and Health

- Synopsis

- The Health of Women and Men

- The Convergence of Health-Related Behaviour

- The Effects of Stable Long-Term Relationships on Health

- Distress Among Women

- Gender Equity

- Education and the Health of Women and Their Communities

- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People

- Intersex People

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 7. Social Support, Social Capital, Social Exclusion, and Racism

- Synopsis

- Social Norms, Predictability, and Human Health

- Social Networks

- Social Support and Health

- Social Isolation among Older Adults

- Social Cohesion

- Social Capital

- Sense of Community Belonging

- Social Exclusion

- Racism

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 8. Health of Indigenous Peoples

- Synopsis

- Who Are the Indigenous Peoples?

- The Health of Indigenous Peoples

- Understanding the Determinants of Indigenous Health

- A Story of Dramatic Improvement

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 9. Employment, Working Conditions, and Health

- Synopsis

- The Centrality of Employment to Adult Health

- Health and Jobs

- Unemployment and Health

- Changes in the Nature of Employment

- Working Conditions and Health

- Policies Affecting Employment, Earnings, Job Benefits, and Working Conditions

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 10. Housing and Neighbourhood

- Synopsis

- Homes and Health

- Neighbourhood and Health

- Urban Design, the Built Environment, and Physical Activity

- Housing Policy and Health

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 11. Food, Food Insecurity, Nutrition, Obesity, and Health

- Synopsis

- Diet and the Health of Populations

- What Is a Healthy Diet? Canada's Food Guide

- The Relative Cost of Healthy Foods

- Obesity

- Diet and Health

- Policies and Programs

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 12. The Environment and Health NEW

- Synopsis

- Climate Change

- Natural Disasters

- Modern Food Production: Factory Farming

- Air Pollution

- Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic

- The Household Environment

- Plastics

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 13. Social Patterning of Behaviour

- Synopsis

- Human Behaviour and Its Context

- Substance Misuse

- Healthy Lifestyles

- Theoretical Considerations

- Summary

- Critical Thinking Questions

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- 14. The Politics of Population Health

- Models of Health

- Globalization and Human Health

- Population Health and Politics

- Annotated Suggested Readings

- Annotated Websites

- Glossary

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Davidson is associate professor emeritus in the Health and Social Development department in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC-Okanagan.