Unequal Health - How Inequality Contributes to Health Or Illness

Unequal Health examines why stark differences in health and well-being persist across demographic groups. The third edition features a new chapter on diet, new discussions of substance abuse and the attention it receives depending on who is using, new discussion of the Affordable Care Act and its impact, and more.

List of contents

Chapter 1-Introduction
Chapter 2-Identifying Disease and Its Causes
Chapter 3-Causes of Death
Chapter 4-Age, Sex, and Race or Ethnicity
Chapter 5-External Causes of Death
Chapter 6-Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors: Diet
Chapter 7-Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors: Exercise, Smoking, and Substance Abuse
Chapter 8-Health Care
Chapter 9-Genes
Chapter 10-Stress
Chapter 11-Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 12-Social Inequality
Chapter 13-Unequal Health

About the author

Grace Budrys is professor emerita at DePaul University. She chaired the committee that created the Master of Public Health program and served as director for one year, directed the Public Services Master program, and was a professor in the Department of Sociology. Her books include Our Unsystematic Health Care System and How Nonprofits Work.

Summary

Unequal Health examines why stark differences in health and well-being persist across demographic groups. The third edition features a new chapter on diet, new discussions of substance abuse and the attention it receives depending on who is using, new discussion of the Affordable Care Act and its impact, and more.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Budrys
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781442248496
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4849-6
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Poverty & unemployment, Personal & public health, United States of America, USA, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, Poverty and precarity