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Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health
This prescient Handbook brings together expert scholars on the social determinants of health, to examine the living and working conditions that impact the wellbeing of populations across the globe. It provides detailed analyses of international case studies, examining how factors such as class, race, gender, and disability can affect personal experiences.
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This prescient Handbook brings together expert scholars on the social determinants of health, to examine the living and working conditions that impact the wellbeing of populations across the globe. It provides detailed analyses of international case studies, examining how factors such as class, race, gender, and disability can affect personal experiences.
Applying a critical materialist social science approach, contributors consider the sources and effects of a range of social determinants, their quality and distribution, and how they come to shape health outcomes. They highlight relevant and contemporary areas, including global health, the idea of COVID as a political economy event, and health in a neoliberalizing world. Ultimately, they identify ways to improve health through political and social change.
The Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health is a crucial resource for academics and researchers in social sciences and health, particularly those focusing on the sociology of health, political economy, political sociology, and social epidemiology. It will also be of interest to students in social science, the health professions, and political science and sociology programs.
Applying a critical materialist social science approach, contributors consider the sources and effects of a range of social determinants, their quality and distribution, and how they come to shape health outcomes. They highlight relevant and contemporary areas, including global health, the idea of COVID as a political economy event, and health in a neoliberalizing world. Ultimately, they identify ways to improve health through political and social change.
The Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health is a crucial resource for academics and researchers in social sciences and health, particularly those focusing on the sociology of health, political economy, political sociology, and social epidemiology. It will also be of interest to students in social science, the health professions, and political science and sociology programs.
Critical Acclaim
‘This volume provides a much needed critical, contemporary and global analysis of the social determinants of health in an increasingly unequal world. With chapters by leading experts from across the world, I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand and reduce global health inequalities.’
– Clare Bambra, Newcastle University, UK
– Clare Bambra, Newcastle University, UK
