Care for major health problems and population health concerns : impacts on patients, providers and policy / edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kronenfeld, Jennie J.

Series:

Research in the sociology of health care ; v. 26.

Research in the sociology of health care, 0275-4959 ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald Jai, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving provision of health care as related to major health problems or population health concerns. In the first chapter, the topic of population health is reviewed and examined, looking at relationships between social structure, including socioeconomic status, and health. A number of papers examine social, demographic and structural problems, and a wide variety of major health problems including chronic illnesses, mental illness, serious acute health problems, and disabilities that require health care. Some of the specific health problems covered include major chronic health problems such as coronary heart diseases and arthritis, as well as HIV/AIDs and other sexually transmitted diseases, obesity and how to deal with obesity, mental health concerns, poverty, homelessness and health care problems with a focus on urban contexts within the United States.The last two papers in the volume extend the focus to look at more international concerns. One paper focuses on urban slum prevalence as a key factor in shaping population level rates of social well being in developing countries, and another on medical tourism. This volume includes papers that focus on the perspectives of patients, providers, and also the relevant links with health policy.

Contents:

Care for Major Health Problems and Population Health Concerns: Impacts on Patients, Providers and Policy; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Section 1: Introduction to Issues of Population Health and Major Health Problems; Chapter 1. Population health concerns and major health problems: An introduction to the topic and the volume; Introduction to population health; Sociological discussions of population health and the importance of social class; Population health concerns and newer research articles; Review of the other sections and selections in this volume; References

Section 2: Chronic Health ProblemsChapter 2. How and why the motivation and skill to self-manage coronary heart disease are socially unequal; Introduction; Inequalities in health; Inequalities in managing chronic illness; Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. Functional ability and disability among older adults with arthritis: The impact of age, duration of arthritis, and severity of arthritis; Introduction; Background; Data and methodology; Results; Discussion; Notes; References

Chapter 4. Weight loss surgery patients' negotiations of medicine's institutional logicIntroduction; Theoretical considerations; Methods; Developing an ideal patient archetype; Patients' negotiations of the ideal archetype; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Section 3: Women and Specialized Health Problems; Chapter 5. From the patient's point of view: Practitioner interaction styles in the treatment of women with chronic STDs; Intersections of morality and medicine; Socio-historical perspectives on STDs; Sexual health interactions: Stigmatized crossroads

Models of practitioner-patient interaction stylesThe importance of studying patients' perceptions of practitioner-patient interactions; Setting and method; Practitioner interaction styles; Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 6. ''I'm Still Here'': a 10 year follow-up of women's experiences living with HIV; Introduction; Background; Methods; Results; Discussionsolconclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Section 4: Mental Health; Chapter 7. Physicians as advocates for their patients: Depression treatment in primary care; Introduction; Physicians as street-level bureaucrats

Research objectivesMethods; Results; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix. Interview questions; Chapter 8. Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans: results from the national Latino and Asian American study; Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans; Social support, Asian Americans and mental health services; Research methods; Findings; Discussion; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Section 5: Broader Considerations about Population Health in Specialized Populations and Across Countries

Chapter 9. ''Falling through the cracks'': health care needs of the older homeless population and their implications

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613681799

9781280771026

128077102X

9781848551619

1848551614

OCLC:

609843574