Living With Health Inequalities - Upstreamdownstream Connections

This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social economic and political inequality.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1.People who need people: A relational approach to living with inequalities
2.Living in the middle and living optimally
3.Feed the poor, eat the rich: Ingestion and inequality
4.Takes your breath away: Inequalities in respiratory health
5.Running up that hill: Living unequally with the meaning of sport and exercise
6.Ordinary distress and loneliness
7.Normal and abnormal suffering
8.Tired of living and scared of dying.
9.Pandemics: The great un-levelling.
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anne Rogers is Professor (Emeritus) of Medical Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. Her research interests are in the sociological aspects of mental health and illness, self-care and management of long-term conditions, people’s experiences of health care, health need and demand for care, and how patients adapt to and incorporate new technologies into their everyday life. Her most recent interests are focused on addressing how social ties and relationships operate in domestic and community settings and act as a conduit for accessing resources and support for managing wellness, social isolation and mental health.
David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton, UK. He has had a long-term interdisciplinary interest in mental health policy, which draws upon psychology, history, sociology and philosophy.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social economic and political inequality.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers, Anne (University of Southampton Rogers, Rogers Anne
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9780367458362
• ISBN: 978-0-367-45836-2
• Seiten: 176
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Social discrimination & inequality, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Personal and public health / health education, Social discrimination and social justice