Political and economic determinants of population health and well-being : controversies and developments /
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| Imprint: | Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., 2004. |
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| Description: | vii, 575 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Policy, politics, health and medicine series Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5576852 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Toward an Integrated Political, Economic, and Cultural Understanding of Health Inequalities
- Part I. Social Policy
- 1.. Development and Quality of Life: A Critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom
- 2.. Gender Equity and the Population Problem
- 3.. Inequality in the Social Consequences of Illness: How Well Do People with Long-Term Illness Fare in the British and Swedish Labor Markets?
- 4.. Economic Growth, Inequality, and the Economic Position of the Poor in 1985-1995: An International Perspective
- 5.. Cross-National Income Inequality: How Great Is It and What Can We Learn from It?
- 6.. Inequality as a Basis for the U.S. Emergence from the Great Stagnation
- Part II. Globalization
- 7.. The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Its Consequences for Economic and Social Well-Being
- 8.. The Widening Gap in Death Rates among Income Groups in the United States from 1967 to 1986
- 9.. Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries
- 10.. How the United States Exports Managed Care to Developing Countries
- Part III. Health Policy
- 11.. The New Conventional Wisdom: An Evaluation of the WHO Report Health Systems: Improving Performance
- 12.. Cost Containment and the Backdraft of Competition Policies
- 13.. Upstream Healthy Public Policy: Lessons from the Battle of Tobacco
- Part IV. Health Care
- 14.. Phases of Capitalism, Welfare States, Medical Dominance, and Health Care in Ontario
- 15.. Does Investor-Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care?
- 16.. Hospital Ownership and Preventable Adverse Events
- 17.. Social Inequalities in Perceived Health and the Use of Health Services in a Southern European Urban Area
- Part V. Occupational Health and Labor Unions
- 18.. Health Care Workers' Unions and Health Insurance: The 1199 Story
- 19.. Role of Trade Unions in Workplace Health Promotion
- 20.. One-Eyed Science: Scientists, Workplace Reproductive Hazards, and the Right to Work
- 21.. Labor, Social, and Human Rights
- A. Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Service Sector Workers
- B. Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Manufacturing Workers
- Part VI. Social Capital versus Class, Gender, and Race
- 22.. A Critique of Social Capital
- 23.. Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries
- 24.. Social Capital, Disorganized Communities, and the Third Way: Understanding the Retreat from Structural Inequalities in Epidemiology and Public Health
- 25.. Community Health Centers and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Healthy Life
- 26.. Gender, Race, Class, and Aging: Advances and Opportunities
- Part VII. Ideology, Theory, and Research Policy
- 27.. People and Places: Contrasting Perspectives on the Association between Social Class and Health
- 28.. A Debate on Race, Racism, Health, and Epidemiology
- A. Race in Epidemiology
- B. Refiguring "Race": Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations
- C. On the Study of Race, Racism, and Health: A Shift from Description to Explanation
- D. Reply to Commentaries by Drs. Krieger and LaVeist on "Race in Epidemiology"
- 29.. Anti-Egalitarianism, Legitimizing Myths, Racism, and "Neo-McCarthyism" in Social Epidemiology and Public Health: A Review of Sally Satel's PC, M.D.
- 30.. Whose Epidemiology, Whose Health?
- Conclusion: Political, Economic, and Cultural Determinants of Population Health--A Research Agenda
- Index
