Political And Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being:: Controversies and Developments / Edition 1

by Vincente Navarro, Caries Muntaner

Overview

The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the evergrowing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. The approach of this book is distinctly multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary: the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, medicine, and history are all represented here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895032782
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/15/2004
Series:	Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Vincente Navarro (Author) , Carles Muntaner (Author)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward an Integrated Political, Economic, and Cultural Understanding of Health Inequalities Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner

What People are Saying About This

Noam Chomsky

This remarkable collection explores, from many perspectives, some of the most crucial problems of social policy of the coming years, not least in the United States. These penetrating essays range from theoretical and analytic dissection of fundamental moral, political, and economic issues to close investigation of a wide variety of critically important cases. For those concerned about what lies ahead -and what we can and should do about it -the collection is not only valuable but indispensable.
—Professor Emeritus, MIT

Erik Olin Wright

Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being is a superb compendium of research and debate on a question of fundamental importance—the relationship between social inequality and human well-being. It should convince all serious scholars that the study of class, race, gender, and other forms of inequality should be at the center of the agenda of public health research in the 21st century.
—Vilas Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin

Giovanni Berlinguer

It was fascinating for me to go through this mine of information, analysis, and interpretation; to find a rigorous academic documentation interlaced with rejections of injustice; to understand how often the health effects of class, gender, race, and social background are concealed; to see the extent to which conservative assumptions are contradicted by strong evidence; to verify the positive health effects of the work of labor unions; to see how many groups defend health as a public good; and to gain so many ideas and insights for research and for action.

Last year, the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO declared: ‘Health has a double moral value, because it is essential for the quality of life and for life itself, and is instrumental as a condition for freedom. The inequality between rich and poor—at the level of individuals, communities, and nations—is increasingly deeply felt in the area of health and healthcare, thereby contributing to the desperation and injustice that prevail and continue to increase in other h ealth-related fields such as food, income, and education.’ This book provides the best analysis of these conditions, the broadest description of the realities in the United States and worldwide, and the stimulus for further research and action.
—University of Rome, Italy

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description: This book provides an overview of nursing's major contemporary issues including collective bargaining, evidence-based practice, the faculty shortage, the status of the nursing doctorate degree, and other timely nursing issues.
Purpose: The purpose is to "assist students to understand what it means to be a professional nurse; to appreciate the history of nursing," and prize nursing's values, standards, and ethics. The authors hope that it instills an appreciation of life-long learning and the need to become a contributing member of the profession.
Audience: Its basic audience has been students in a bridge course from RN to BSN, but it could be used in early baccalaureate courses and as a resource for practicing nurses and graduate students.
Features: The 16 chapters in the book are in synch with the number of weeks in a semester. Chapters can stand alone and can be read in any order. The book has been designed to be student friendly with care, including visual features to aid visual learners. Key terms are in boldface and explained in the glossary. Chapters include self-assessment exercises, evidence-based practice notes, and critical thinking exercises. An instructor's manual contains activities for both large and small groups, and for in and out of class sessions. A test bank is included as are chapter outlines and objectives and suggested readings.
Assessment: This book is very rich in content yet is readable for both the novice as well as the seasoned professional. The topics are timely and lend themselves well to reflection and discussion.

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