Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health
This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Public Health Ethics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding the Social Determinants of Health
- Justice, Compound Disadvantage, and Health Inequities
- Ethics, Responsibility, and Social Patterning of Risky Health Behaviors
- The Unbearable Oughtness of Public Health Policy
- The Social Determinants of Health and Public Health Practice
- Conclusion