Social Injustice and Public Health

Herausgeber: Levy, Barry S

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Produktbeschreibung

"An invaluable primer on how inequity breeds ill health" -New England Journal of Medicine AN ESSENTIAL WORK ON SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, NOW UPDATED AND EXPANDED This newly revised edition of the classic text is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health. Across chapters from experts in health and medicine, readers learn to recognize both the threads of inequity and the health impacts they produce. The result is illuminating and essential reading for students and professionals in public health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 939g
• ISBN-13: 9780190914646
• ISBN-10: 0190914645
• Artikelnr.: 56146176

Autorenporträt

Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H., Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine and a past president of the American Public Health Association, has had extensive experience in public health practice, education, research, and consulting in the United States and many other countries. He has written more than 200 articles and book chapters on a wide range of public health subjects and has co-edited 19 other books.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Introduction
* 1: The Nature of Social Injustice and Its Impact on Public Health
* Barry S. Levy
* Box 1-1: Concepts of Social Justice
* Box 1-2: Science and Social Justice
* Omar Khan and Kawika Liu
* Part II: How Social Injustice Affects the Health of Specific
Population Groups
* 2: Socioeconomically Disadvantaged People
* Michael Marmot and Ruth Bell
* 3: People of Color
* Carol Easley Allen and Cheryl E. Easley
* Box 3-1: Racial and Ethnic Definitions in the U.S. Census
* Box 3-2: Major Disparities in Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Rates of African Americans Compared with Others in the United States
* Linda Villarosa
* Box 3-3: The Importance of Teaching Health Professionals About
Cultural Competence
* 4: Women
* Gina Maranto
* 5: Children
* Sara Rosenbaum, Kay A. Johnson, and Rachel Gunsalus
* Box 5-1: Child Poverty Rates in the United States and Other Countries
* Barry S. Levy
* Box 5-2: Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Millions Are
Dying from Preventable Diseases
* Kathryn Bolles and M. James Eliades
* 6: Older People
* Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. Wallace
* 7: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual People
* Emilia Lombardi and Talia Bettcher
* 8: People with Disabilities
* Nora Ellen Groce
* Box 8-1: Terminology
* Box 8-2: Disability and Education
* Box 8-3: Similarities and Differences Among People with Disabilities
* 9: Incarcerated People.
* Ernest M. Drucker
* Box 9-1: Political Prisoners
* William Schulz
* 10: People Who Are Homeless
* Elizabeth M. Moore, Theresa H. Cheng, Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, and
Lillian Gelberg
* 11: Forced Migrants: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
* Michael Toole
* Part III: How Social Injustice Affects Areas of Public Health
* 12: Medical Care
* Oliver Fein and H. Jack Geiger
* Box 12-1: What is Single-payer Health Care?
* Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein
* Box 12-2: Improving Medical Care by Teaching Medical Students About
Racism
* Anthony L. Schlaff
* 13: Infectious Diseases
* Joia S. Mukherjee and Paul E. Farmer
* Box 13-1: Case Study of a Man with Tuberculosis
* 14: Nutrition
* J. Larry Brown
* Box 14-1: Definition of Key Terms
* Box 14-2: Obesity
* 15: Noncommunicable Diseases
* Ramla Benmaamar, Madeleine Smith, and Derek Yach
* Box 15-1: Noncommunicable Disease Inequities in the United States
* Barry S. Levy
* 16: Mental Health
* Carles Muntaner, Edwin Ng, Haejoo Chung, Philipp Hessel, and William
W. Eaton
* Box 16-1: The Opioid Crisis and Social Justice
* Jay C. Butler
* 17: Violence
* James A. Mercy and Sarah DeGue
* Box 17-1: War and Public Health
* Barry S. Levy
* Box 17-2: The International Arms Trade
* Barry S. Levy
* Box 17-3: Nuclear Weapons and Social Injustice
* Robert M. Gould and Patrice M. Sutton
* 18: Environmental Health
* Barry S. Levy
* Box 18-1: Childhood Lead Poisoning
* Howard Hu
* Box 18-2: Impact of Natural Disasters on Social Justice
* Linda Young Landesman
* Box 18-3: Planetary Health
* Samuel S. Myers
* 19: Occupational Health and Safety.
* Linda Rae Murray
* Box 19-1: Economic Globalization
* Ellen R. Shaffer and Joseph E. Brenner
* 20: Oral Health
* Myron Allukian, Jr., and Alice M. Horowitz
* Box 20-1: Oral Health Inequalities in Low-income Countries
* 21: International and Global Health
* Barry S. Levy
* Box 21-1: Trafficking in Persons
* Box 21-2: Hunger and Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-income Countries
* Box 21-3: Export of Hazardous Substances from High-income Countries
to Low- and Middle-income Countries
* Part IV: An Agenda for Action
* 22: Addressing Social Injustice in a Human Rights Context
* Sofia Gruskin and Paula Braveman
* Box 22-1: Promoting the Rights of "Undocumented Immigrants"
* Carmen R. Nevarez
* 23: Promoting Social Justice Through Public Health Policies,
Programs, and Services
* Alonzo Plough and Priya Gandhi
* 24: Strengthening Communities and the Roles of Individuals in
Building Community Life
* Robert E. Aronson, Kay Lovelace, John W. Hatch, and Tony L. Whitehead
* Box 24-1: Strengthening Communities in Low-Income Countries
* Gail Snetro-Plewman and Angela Brasington
* Box 24-2: How a Community-Based Foundation Addresses Health
Consequences of Social Injustice
* Martin D. Cohen
* 25: Promoting Social Justice Through Education in Public Health
* Robert S. Lawrence
* Box 25-1: International Declaration of Health Rights
* Box 25-2: Teaching Health Equity in a Community-based Program
* Shelley K. White
* 26: A Critical Research Agenda for Social Justice and Public Health:
An Ecosocial Proposal
* Nancy Krieger
* 27: Protecting Human Rights through International and National Law
* Henry A. Freedman and Martha F. Davis
* Box 27-1: Preventing Torture
* Leonard S. Rubenstein and Vincent Iacopino
* 28: Learning from the Social Movements of the 1960s
* Oliver Fein and Charlotte Phillips
* 29: Promoting Health with Equitable and Sustainable Human Development
* Richard Jolly
* Box 29-1: The Role of International Non-governmental Organizations in
Promoting Equitable and Sustainable Human Development
* Raymond C. Offenheiser and M. Porter McConnell
* Box 29-2: The Roles of Foundations in Promoting Equitable and
Sustainable Human Development
* Mark Sidel
* Index