Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health

Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health
Title Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health PDF eBook
Author Jaime Breilh
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 277
Release 2021-01-15
Genre Medical
ISBN 0190492783

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"A groundbreaking approach to critical epidemiology for understanding the complexity of the health process and studying the social determination of health. A powerful critique of Cartesian health sciences, of the flaws of "functional health determinants" model, and of reductionist approaches to health statistics, qualitative research and conventional health geography. A consolidated and well sustained essay that explains the role of social-gender-ethnic relations in the reproduction of health inequity, proposing a new paradigm with indispensible concepts and methodological means to develop a new understanding of health as a socially determined and distributed process. It combines the strengths of scientific traditions of the North and South, to bring forward a new understanding and application of qualitative and quantitative (statistical) evidences, that looks beyond the limits of conventional epidemiology, public and population health. The book presents alternative conceptions and tools for constructing deep prevention. A neo-humanist conception of the role of health and life sciences that assumes critical, intercultural and transdisciplinary thinking as a fundamental tool beyond the limiting elitist framework of positivist reasoning. A most important source of fresh ideas and practical instruments for teaching, research and agency, based on a renewed conception of the relation between nature, society, health and environmental problems"--

Epidemiology and the People's Health

Epidemiology and the People's Health
Title Epidemiology and the People's Health PDF eBook
Author Nancy Krieger
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 395
Release 2011-03-23
Genre Medical
ISBN 0199750351

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This concise, conceptually rich, and accessible book is a rallying cry for a return to the study and discussion of epidemiologic theory: what it is, why it matters, how it has changed over time, and its implications for improving population health and promoting health equity. By tracing its history and contours from ancient societies on through the development of--and debates within--contemporary epidemiology worldwide, Dr. Krieger shows how epidemiologic theory has long shaped epidemiologic practice, knowledge, and the politics of public health.

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health
Title Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health PDF eBook
Author Nancy Krieger
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 353
Release 2021
Genre Medical
ISBN 0197510728

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From Embodying Injustice to Embodying Equity: Embodied Truths and the Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution -- Embodying (In)justice and Embodied Truths: Using Ecosocial Theory to Analyze Population Health Data -- Challenges: Embodied Truths, Vision, and Advancing Health Justice.

Climate Change and the People's Health

Climate Change and the People's Health
Title Climate Change and the People's Health PDF eBook
Author Sharon Friel
Publisher
Pages 233
Release 2019
Genre Medical
ISBN 0190492732

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"Climate Change and the People's Health" offers a brave and ambitious new framework for understanding how our planet's two greatest existential threats comingle, complement, and amplify one another -- and what can be done to mitigate future harm. With insights from physical science, social science, and the humanities, this short book examines how climate change and social inequity are indelibly linked, and considering them together can bring about effective change in social equity, health, and the environment. -- From publisher's description.

Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health

Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health
Title Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health PDF eBook
Author Dinesh Bhugra
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 632
Release 2018-09-13
Genre Medical
ISBN 0192511408

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Prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion have often been ignored in the past, both in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Recently, however, there has been a clear shift towards public mental health, as a result of increasing scientific evidence that both these actions have a serious potential to reduce the onset of illness and subsequent burden as a result of mental illness and related social, economic and political costs. A clear distinction between prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion is critical. Selective prevention, both at societal and individual level, is an important way forward. The Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health brings together the increasing interest in public mental health and the growing emphasis on the prevention of mental ill health and promotion of well-being into a single comprehensive textbook. Comprising international experiences of mental health promotion and mental well-being, chapters are supplemented with practical examples and illustrations to provide the most relevant information succinctly. This book will serve as an essential resource for mental and public health professionals, as well as for commissioners of services, nurses and community health visitors.

Political Sociology and the People's Health

Political Sociology and the People's Health
Title Political Sociology and the People's Health PDF eBook
Author Jason Beckfield
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 209
Release 2018-08-10
Genre Medical
ISBN 0190492481

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A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of institutions that unequally allocate power and social goods. Neither is wrong -- but can the two talk to one another? In a stirring new synthesis, Political Sociology and the People's Health advances the debate over social inequalities in health by offering a new set of provocative hypotheses around how health is distributed in and across populations. It joins political sociology's macroscopic insights into social policy, labor markets, and the racialized and gendered state with social epidemiology's conceptualizations and measurements of populations, etiologic periods, and distributions. The result is a major leap forward in how we understand the relationships between institutions and inequalities -- and essential reading for those in public health, sociology, and beyond.

Social Epidemiology

Social Epidemiology
Title Social Epidemiology PDF eBook
Author Lisa F. Berkman
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 428
Release 2000-03-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780195083316

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This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be generated. It reviews a range of methodologies that could be used by health researchers in this field and proposes innovative future research directions.