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Social Determinants of Health
- Publication Year:
- 2005
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Author:
- Marmot, Michael; Wilkinson, Richard G.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-856589-5
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A MUST for public health officials, health promotion specialists, and public policy experts.
Recognition of the power of socioeconomic factors as determinants of health came initially from research on health inequalities. Thus, exercise and accidents are as much about a society's transport system as about individual choice. But a major new element in the picture we have developed is the importance of the social, pr psycho-social, environment to health. For example, health in the workplace for most emplyees - certainly for office workers - is less a matter of exposure to physical health hazards as of the social environment, of how supportive it is, whether people have control over their work, whether their jobs are secure. A similar picture emerges in other areas ranging from the health importance of the emotional environment in early childhood to the need for more socially cohesive communities.
Written by acknowledged experts in each field, Social Determinants of Health, 2E gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies.
Recognition of the power of socioeconomic factors as determinants of health came initially from research on health inequalities. Thus, exercise and accidents are as much about a society's transport system as about individual choice. But a major new element in the picture we have developed is the importance of the social, pr psycho-social, environment to health. For example, health in the workplace for most emplyees - certainly for office workers - is less a matter of exposure to physical health hazards as of the social environment, of how supportive it is, whether people have control over their work, whether their jobs are secure. A similar picture emerges in other areas ranging from the health importance of the emotional environment in early childhood to the need for more socially cohesive communities.
Written by acknowledged experts in each field, Social Determinants of Health, 2E gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies.
- Read accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating aspects of social and economic life as the primary determinants of a population's health
- Explore chapters on ethnicity and health, sexual behaviors, the elderly, housing and neighborhoods, and more
- Learn how the socially and economically structured way of life of a population shapes its health
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- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Marmot, Michael; Wilkinson, Richard G.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-856589-5
- Specialty:
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- Epidemiology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Pages:
- 376
- Publication Year:
- 2005