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Informationen zum Autor Martin T. Donohoe, MD, FACP is adjunct associate professor in Community Health at Portland State University, practices internal medicine, and is on the Social Justice Committee of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and the Board of Advisors for Oregon PSR. Klappentext Praise for Public Health and Social Justice "This compilation unifies ostensibly distant corners of our broad discipline under the common pursuit of health as an achievable, non-negotiable human right. It goes beyond analysis to impassioned suggestions for moving closer to the vision of health equity." --Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Kolokotrones University Professor and chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; co-founder, Partners In Health "This superb book is the best work yet concerning the relationships between public health and social justice." --Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico "This book gives public health professionals, researchers and advocates the essential knowledge they need to capture the energy that social justice brings to our enterprise." --Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College "The breadth of topics selected provides a strong overview of social justice in medicine and public health for readers new to the topic." --William Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS, senior scientist and head, Office of Health and Society Studies, Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute, Northern Arizona University "This book is a tremendous contribution to the literature of social justice and public health." --Catherine Thomasson, MD, executive director, Physicians for Social Responsibility "This book will serve as an essential reference for students, teachers and practitioners in the health and human services who are committed to social responsibility." --Shafik Dharamsi, PhD, faculty of medicine, University of British Columbia Zusammenfassung The author explores the role of social and economic injustices as root causes of the uneven distribution of disease across population groups according to class! race and gender. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction xi Acknowledgments xix The Editor xxiii The Contributors xxv Part I Human Rights, Social Justice, Economics, Poverty, and Health Care 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 5 2. Public Health as Social Justice 11 Dan E. Beauchamp 3. What We Mean by Social Determinants of Health 21 Vicente Navarro 4. The Magic Mountain: Trickle-Down Economics in a Philippine Garbage Dump 39 Matthew Power 5. Family Medicine Should Encourage the Development of Luxury Practices: Negative Position 55 Martin Donohoe Part Two Special Populations 6. Homelessness in the United States: History, Epidemiology, Health Issues, Women, and Public Policy 77 Martin Donohoe 7. Historical and Contemporary Factors Contributing to the Plight of Migrant Farmworkers in the United States 85 Safina Koreishi, Martin Donohoe 8. The Persistence of American Indian Health Disparities 99 David S. Jones 9. Prejudice and the Medical Profession: A Five-Year Update 123 Peter A. Clark 10. Sexual and Gender Minority Health: What We Know and What Needs to Be Done 153 Kenneth H. Mayer, Judith B. Bradford, Harvey J. Makadon, Ron Stall, Hilary Goldhammer, Stewart Landers 11. Mental Disorders, Health Inequalities, and Ethics: A Global Perspective 171 Emmanuel M. Ngui, Lincoln Khasakhala, David Nndetei, Laura Weiss Roberts 12. Incarcera...
