The Social Determinants of Health - 9781509565573

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

The Social Determinants of HealthLooking Upstream\nAuthor(s): Kathryn Strother Ratcliff, Linda Axtell-Thompson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509565573, 978-1509565573\nSynopsis\nThe new edition of this popular introduction takes seriously the idea that health outcomes can be fully understood only by investigating the role the social world plays in our health.\n\n Ratcliff and Axtell-Thompson put into practice the \""upstream\"" imagery championed by public health experts, locating the causes of health problems and their solutions within the social environment. Each chapter explains how the shape of social institutions, the unequal realities of community life, and the politics behind corporate and governmental decisions produce and perpetuate unhealthy living and working conditions. This new edition links more strongly to existing US and international policy frameworks on the determinants of health and pays g.