Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities

Written by a leading authority in health equity, Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities is the definitive classroom guide to understanding and addressing racial and social disparities in health.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: What Influences Health? And What Influences the Influences?


• Chapter 1: Income and Wealth Shape Health and Health Disparities in Many Ways


• Chapter 2: Education, Health, and Health Disparities


• Chapter 3: Stress Mediates the Health Effects of Many Determinants of Health


• Chapter 4: Racism Damages Health Through Many Causal Pathways


• Chapter 5: Early Childhood Experiences Shape Health Throughout Life


• Chapter 6: Healthy and Unhealthy Places: Neighborhoods, Health, and Health Disparities


• Chapter 7: Housing, Health, and Health Disparities


• Chapter 8: Work Can Be Good-or Bad-For Your Health


• Chapter 9: Behaviors Influence Health. What Influences Behaviors?

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, is Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Braveman has studied and published extensively on health equity, health disparities, racism, and other social determinants of health. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with local, state, national, and international health agencies to see rigorous research translated into practice for greater health equity, including the World Health Organization and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2002, considered one of the highest honors for U.S. scientists working in the field of health.

Zusammenfassung

Written by a leading authority in health equity, Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities is the definitive classroom guide to understanding and addressing racial and social disparities in health.

Zusatztext

Braveman (Univ. of California, San Francisco) provides an important introduction to social determinants of health (SDOH) for students, faculty, and administrators.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Braveman , Paula Braveman, Paula (Founding Director Braveman, Braveman Paula
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 06.03.2023
• EAN: 9780190624118
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062411-8
• Seiten: 322
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Theorien und Ideengeschichte; MEDICAL / Health Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Personal & public health, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Personal and public health / health education, Hiv / Aids: Social Aspects