Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten
Controversies and Developments
Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten
Reihe: Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
ISBN: 978-0-89503-279-9
Verlag: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection "The Political Economy of Social Inequalities", is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the evergrowing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. The approach of this book is distinctly multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary: the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, medicine, and history are all represented here.
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Introduction: Toward an Integrated Political, Economic, and Cultural Understanding of Health Inequalities Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner
PART I Social PolicyDevelopment and Quality of Life: A Critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom Vicente NavarroGender Equity and the Population Problem Amartya SenInequality in the Social Consequences of Illness: How Well Do People with Long-Term Illness Fare in the British and Swedish Labor Markets? Bo Burstriöm, Margaret Whitehead, Christina Lindholm, and Finn DiderichsenEconomic Growth, Inequality, and the Economic Position of the Poor in 1985-1995: An International Perspective Olli KangasCross-National Income Inequality: How Great Is It and What Can We Learn from It? Timothy M. Smeeding and Peter GottschalkInequality as a Basis for the U.S. Emergence from the Great Stagnation Robert Chernomas
PART II GlobalizationThe Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Its Consequences for Economic and Social Well-Being Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Egor Kraev, and Judy ChenThe Widening Gap in Death Rates among Income Groups in the United States from 1967 to 1986 Lisa Miller Schalick, Wilbur C. Hadden, Elsie Pamuk, Vicente Navarro, and Gregory PappasDependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Charles LevensteinHow the United States Exports Managed Care to Developing Countries Howard Waitzkin and Celia Iriart
PART III Health PolicyThe New Conventional Wisdom: An Evaluation of the WHO Report Health Systems: Improving Performance Yvonne Wells and David de VausCost Containment and the Backdraft of Competition Policies Donald W. LightUpstream Healthy Public Policy: Lessons from the Battle of Tobacco John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau
PART IV Health CarePhases of Capitalism, Welfare States, Medical Dominance, and Health Care in Ontario David CoburnDoes Investor-Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care? Charlene Harrington, Steffie Woolhandler, Joseph Mullan, Hellen Carrillo, and David U. HimmelsteinHospital Ownership and Preventable Adverse Events Eric J. Thomas, E. John Orav, and Troyen A. BrennanSocial Inequalities in Perceived Health and the Use of Health Services in a Southern European Urban Area Carme Borrell, Izabella Rohlfs, Josep Ferrando, Isabel Pasarín, Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, and Antoni Plasència
PART V Occupational Health and Labor UnionsHealth Care Worker's Unions and Health Insurance: The 1199 Story Howard S. Berliner, Geoffrey Gibson, and Cyprian Devine-PerezRole of Trade Unions in Workplace Health Promotion Mauri Johansson and Timo PartanenOne-Eyed Science: Scientists, Workplace Reproductive Hazards, and the Right to Work Karen MessingLabor, Social, and Human Rights A Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Service Sector WorkersB Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Manufacturing Workers Human Rights Watch
PART VI Social Capital versus Class, Gender, and RaceA Critique of Social Capital Vicente NavarroEconomic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries Carles Muntaner, John W. Lynch, Marianne Hillemeier, Ju Hee Lee, Richard David, Joan Benach, and Carme BorrellSocial Capital, Disorganized Communities, and the Third Way: Understanding the Retreat from Structural Inequalities in Epidemiology and Public Health Carles Muntaner, John Lynch, and George Davey SmithCommunity Health Centers and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Healthy Life Leiyu Shi, Jerrilynn Regan, Robert M. Politzer, and Jue LuoGender, Race, Class, and Aging: Advances and Opportunities Paula Dressel, Meredith Minkler, and Irene Yen
PART VII Ideology, Theory, and Research PolicyPeople and Places: Contrasting Perspectives on the Association between Social Class and Health George A. KaplanA Debate on Race, Racism, Health, and Epidemiology A Race in Epidemiology Paul D. StolleyB Refiguring "Race": Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations Nancy KriegerC On the Study of Race, Racism, and Health: A Shift from Description to Explanation Thomas A. LaVeistD Reply to Commentaries by Drs. Krieger and LaVeist on "Race in Epidemiology" Paul D. StolleyAnti-Egalitarianism, Legitimizing Myths, Racism, and "Neo-McCarthyism" in Social Epidemiology and Public Health: A Review of Sally Satel's PC, MD Carles Muntaner and Marisela B. GomezWhose Epidemiology, Whose Health? Steve WingConclusion: Political and Economic Determinants of Class, Gender, and Race Inequalities in Health-An Agenda for the 21st Century Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner
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