Social Determinants of Health

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Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies. Written by acknowledged experts in each field, it provides accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating different aspects of social and economic life as the primary determinants of a population's health. The new edition takes account of the most recent research and also includes additional chapters on ethnicity and health, sexual behaviours, the elderly, housing and neighbourhoods. Recognition of the power of socioeconomic factors as determinants of health came initially from research on health inequalities. This has led to a view of health as not simply about individual behaviour or exposure to risk, but how the socially and economically structured way of life of a population shapes its health. Thus exercise and accidents are as much about a society's transport system as about individual decisions; and the nation's diet involves agriculture, food manufacture, retailing, and personal incomes as much as individual choice. But a major new element in the picture we have developed is the importance of the social, or psycho-social, environment to health. For example, health in the workplace for most employees - certainly for office workers - is less a matter of exposure to physical health hazards as of the social environment, of how supportive it is, whether people have control over their work, whether their jobs are secure. A similar picture emerges in other areas ranging from the health importance of the emotional environment in early childhood to the need for more socially cohesive communities. Social Determinants of Health should be read by those interested in the wellbeing of modern societies. It is a must for public health professionals, for health promotion specialists, and for people working in the many fields of public policy which we now know make such an important contribution to health.

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A ground-breaking, authoritative work.......2003-05-22

Marmot and Wilkinson do a thorough, comprehensive job of exploring the emerging field of how social inequalities affect the health of populations. This is a great resource both for public health professionals and for those who are looking for an accessible way to be introduced to the topic. The second chapter alone - a detailed description of the physiological mechanisms by which psychosocial stress is translated to worse health outcomes - is worth the price. Marmot and Wilkinson's work has significance far beyond the realm of public health, and should be read by policy-makers of all ideological stripes.

Psychology of Physical Activity: Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions

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Psychology of Physical Activity: Determinants, Well-Being and Interventions
Stuart Biddle
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ASIN: 041523526X

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Times have changed! Gone are the days when most children walked or cycled to school and played in empty streets, and adults undertook physically active jobs. We are in a technologically advanced society in which physical activity has been removed from our daily lives. At the same times we have recognised the importance of physical activity for health and how clearly low levels of physical activity have been associated with major health problems, including heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes and psychological ill health.
Psychology of Physical Activity summerises key findings on what determines whether people start, maintain or stop exercise and physical activity, what psychological benefits might accrue from an active lifestyle, and what interventions have been tested to increase physical activity levels.
Extensive discussion centres on:
* motivation
* attitudes
* well-being
* depression and mental illness
* clinical populations
* interventions
* research consensus.
Interventions are addressed in terms of strategies for individuals, such as stages of change and counselling approaches, and strategies aimed at wider organisational and community settings, including schools and the workplace. Psychology of Physical Activity adopts an 'evidence based approach' and is aimed at second year and above undergraduates and post-graduates in exercise and sports science; health psychology students within psychology degree programmes; health professionals needing background information.

Social Determinants of Indigenous Health

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Social Determinants of Indigenous Health

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This groundbreaking study examines the social and political circumstances that have led to the “Fourth World” health standards of Australia’s Indigenous population. Providing a systematic overview of the relationship between the social and political environment and health, leading researchers discuss the causes behind poor health outcomes and outline how such programs can be successful while reflecting on the long-term health effects that dispossession, colonial rule, and racism have had on the Indigenous people.

Handbook of Health Behavior Research I: Personal and Social Determinants

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Handbook of Health Behavior Research I: Personal and Social Determinants

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0306454432

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This landmark treatise provides the first comprehensive review of basic health behavior research. In four volumes, multidisciplinary contributors critically assess every aspect of health behavior, giving special attention to the interrelationship between personal/social systems and risk behavior. Volume 1 presents useful conceptions of health and health behavior and describes the influence of personal, family, social and institutional factors. Each volume features extensive supplementary and integrative material prepared by the editor, the detailed index to the entire four-volume set, and a glossary of health behavior terminology.

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Review from Choice.......2002-08-06

"An excellent overview...The chapters are well written, focused on research, and nicely organized...excellent prefaces and summary chapters...The excellent glossary and extensive index are welcome additions...Highly recommended."

Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health of Populations (Social Institutions and Social Change) (Social Institutions and Social Change)

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Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health of Populations (Social Institutions and Social Change) (Social Institutions and Social Change)

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The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Health and Behavior: The Interplay of Biological, Behavioral, and Societal Influences
The Strategy of Preventive Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications)
Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research
Social Determinants of Health

ASIN: 0202304906

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Since the mid-1970s, a widely shared view that the determinants of health go well beyond medical care has emerged in the western democracies. What mattered in this newly-formed public health agenda were the more basic determinants of health: the work and physical environment; the genes one inherits; and the style of life one adopts. Yet despite nearly two decades of repeated intellectual efforts to redirect health policy away from curative medicine to more fundamental interventions, the task remains, largely undone. The purpose of this volume is to ask why, and to suggest answers and evidence about the determinants of population health that may help redirect national health policies.

It is an unusual volume, in every sense a collaborative effort, growing out of the quarterly seminars and long-term research interests of the population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (C.I.A.R.). Under the auspices of the C.I.A.R., participants distinguished in the social and the health sciences set out between 1988 and 1993 to probe the links between social hierarchy, the influence of "macroenvironmental" factors on illness patterns, the quality of the "microenvironment," and other such determinants of health. Their findings, reported as occasional papers and subsequently further revised and integrated, constitute separate chapters of this book.

In addition to the specific viewpoints adopted and health fields explored here, the editors have provided both an extended introduction and a conceptual framework for the book that elaborates the scholarly group's philosophical and methodological premises. Though the picture presented of the future is not wholly optimistic, this volume will prove essential to an understanding of the underlying public health issues for the next several decades.

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The gold-standard on determinants of Population Health.......1998-05-17

In the tradition of Dubos, McKeown, and Geoffrey Rose - but goes further and draws on recent data. By multiple authors. The early chapters make for exhilarating reading. "Producing Health, Consuming Health Care" by Evans and Stoddard in particular will be heavily cited for years to come. Later chapters, on implications for policy, come as a bit of a let down. Ultimately, the book is at its strongest in its account of what produces health but isn't as satisfying in its discussions of repercussions for practice.

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives

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Policy directions for employment and wellbeing
New book is very important contribution.

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives

Manufacturer: Canadian Scholars Press
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Social Determinants of Health
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

ASIN: 1551302373

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Uniting top academics and high profile experts from across the country, this contributed volume is the first of its kind published in Canada. It summarizes how socio-economic factors affect the health of Canadians, surveys the current state of eleven social determinants of health across Canada, and provides an analysis of how these determinants affect Canadians' health. In each case, the book explores what policy options would contribute to better health outcomes. and how to ensure that these options are pursued. Eleven critical areas are investigated: Aboriginal status, early life, education, employment and working conditions, food security, health care services, housing, income and its distribution, social safety net, social exclusion, as well as unemployment and employment security. Gender, and how its meaning is constructed within Canadian society, is another important social determinant of health. All contributors systematically consider how it impacts upon and interacts with their specific social determinant of health to influence health.

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Policy directions for employment and wellbeing.......2004-08-31

As a policy analyst working on employment-related issues, I look for research and studies that do the following:
·provide insights into the problems confronting the labour market,
·discuss evidence-based policy changes that will address the problems,
·supply specific recommendations for changes to actual existing laws and policies (since policy makers are more likely to react to these kinds of recommendations than to more broad types of recommendations), and
·understand that promoting better public awareness of the issues is an important component of policy change (since policy change often happens in response to public pressure).

Social Determinants of Health provides these kinds of insights and policy advice. For instance, citing the fact that women are more likely than men to work in insecure jobs, in part because responsibility for family care is gendered, one article proposes that Canada go further in encouraging men to share family responsibilities by providing at least one additional month of parental EI benefits only for fathers. Another article outlines the health consequences of non-standard work hours, contingent work, and job insecurity - an excellent contribution to our understanding of employment and wellbeing.

New book is very important contribution........2004-07-17

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives
General editor, Dennis Raphael

New Book -- Available August, 2004

Eleven critical areas are investigated: Aboriginal status, early life,
education, employment and working conditions, food security, health care
services, housing, income and its distribution, social safety net, social
exclusion, as well as unemployment and employment security. Gender, and how
its meaning is constructed within Canadian society, is another important
social determinant of health. All contributors systematically consider how
it impacts upon and interacts with their specific social determinant of
health to influence health.

Contributors:

Pat Armstrong Andrew Jackson Irving Rootman François Aubry Muriel
Kearney Chandrakant P. Shah Nathalie Auger Ronald Labonte Michael
Shapcott Gina B. Browne David Langille Valerie Tarasuk Toba
Bryant Richard Lessard Luc Thériault
Tracey Burns Lynn McIntyre Emile Tompa Robert Choinière Michael
Polanyi Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay Ann Curry-Stevens Michael
Rachlis Louise Tremblay Janice Foley Dennis Raphael Charles
Ungerleider Martha Friendly Marie-France Raynault Yves
Vaillancourt Grace-Edward Galabuzi Barbara Ronson

This volume will serve as an important text for students and also a good
solid resource for teachers and researchers. The major strengths of this
book lie in its breadth of social determinants of health. Most academic
works do not focus on such a wide range and if they do, they do not include
much current research information. [The book] definitely presents the
material in an original way as it is based on up-to-date, new research in
the areas." Catherine Chiappetta-Swanson, McMaster University

August 2004 1-55130-237-3 pb 400 pp C$45.95 US$37.95

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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 ever-growing 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.

Part I, on social policy, includes Navarro's critique of Sen's influential Development As Freedom, Sen's own analysis of gender and development, a comparison of the consequences of Swedish and British labor market policies, and several analyses of the evolution of international economic inequalities. Part II centers on the contested concept of globalization, with an international empirical analysis of its consequences for global well-being over the last two decades, a description of growing health inequalities by income in the United States since the 1960s, and an account of the expansion of managed care in semiperipheral countries. Part III, on health policy, presents a critique of a controversial 2000 WHO report and two analyses of contemporary U.S. health policy. Part IV, on health care, provides international empirical evidence on the negative effects of privatization, in particular in hospitals, nursing homes, and health services utilization. Part V focuses on occupational health and labor unions, including the crucial role of unions in protecting worker's safety and health. One chapter tells the story of New York's legendary SEIU 1199; another addresses the neglected area of women's occupational health; another provides dramatic case studies on violations of workers' freedom of association and their consequences. Part VI, on social capital versus class, gender, and race, deals with one of the most heated theoretical and empirical debates in contemporary social epidemiology. Most of the contributors provide arguments and data that challenge communitarian approaches to health disparities, focusing instead on political factors, welfare state provisions, and class, race, and gender inequalities as major sources of inequalities in health. Finally, Part VII addresses the role of ideology, theory, and research policy in the production and maintenance of social inequalities in health. Ideology is not usually seen as a social determinant of population health, but the contributors here show the role of ideology in shaping scientific views about race and health disparities, as well as the implicit understanding of determinants of health and disease. The final chapter presents a critical overview of recent ideological attempts at discrediting empirical research on health disparities and social epidemiology.

Contextual Determinants of Malaria (RFF Press)
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ASIN: 1891853198

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As malaria and other tropical diseases continue their resurgence, questions about the potential impacts of environmental and demographic factors are becoming more critical. Recent attempts to understand the increase in malaria incidence often acknowledge the importance of social, economic and other contextual variables, but fail to explicitly incorporate them into models or consider how they evolve in relation to one another. This problem is of crucial interest to the climate policy community, which has been buffeted by claims and counter-claims concerning the impact of climate change on malaria.

This important volume examines the contextual determinants of malaria and attempts to develop methods for incorporating them into projections of future incidence. Internationally renowned health specialists, economists, and other social scientists provide regional and global perspectives on risk modeling, the history of eradication efforts, current determinants (including environmental, social, and economic factors), and prospects for new vaccines and drugs.

The Contextual Determinants of Malaria argues that an association of climate change with increased malaria incidence will have at least as much to do with aging, poverty, urbanization, and population movement as with a rise in global temperatures. By placing climate in this perspective, The Contextual Determinants of Malaria focuses attention on the public health needs most critical in both the immediate and long-term future. It encourages multidisciplinary analysis of malaria control, and improves our understanding of the interactions of the diverse range of factors involved in the incidence and spread of the disease.

A cross-sectional study of socio-cultural and health determinants of complementary and alternative medicine use by Chinese patients with mental health ... urban primary care setting : (Dissertation)

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A cross-sectional study of socio-cultural and health determinants of complementary and alternative medicine use by Chinese patients with mental health ... urban primary care setting : (Dissertation)
Lin Fang
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Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century

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Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century
Carl Walker
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Depression and Globalisation is an important academic text on the political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between globalisation and depression. In this text Dr. Walker reestablishes the link between mental health research and treatment, along with the political and economical influences outside the world of academic and clinical mental health. Overall, this book will accomplish the task of how closely and inextricably linked these diverse fields are and the way they operate together to produce not only a cultural representation of mental illness but influence the extent and type of mental distress in the 21st century.

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