Handbook on the social determinants of health / edited by Toba Bryant (Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Canada).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryant, Toba, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Health--Social aspects.

Health.

Determinants.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"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 the social sciences, including the sociology of health, political economy, political sociology, public policy, and social epidemiology. It will also be of interest to students in medicine and other health professions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction to the handbook on the social determinants of health / Toba Bryant

Part II. Defining the social determinants of health

2. Historical perspectives / Stella Medvedyuk and Dennis Raphael

3. Conceptualizing the social determinants of health: The value of a global political economy of health perspective / Courtney McNamara

4. Pathways to health and illness / Stephen Bezruchka

5. Covid as a political economy event: Pandemic and syndemic / Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson

Part III. Key social determinants of health

6. The level and distribution of income and wealth / Gerry McCartney

7. Employment, health, and the laws of accumulation / Scott Aquanno and Toba Bryant

8. Early life and the social determinants of health / Stephen Bezruchka

9. Food security / Zsofia Mendly-Zambo

10. Housing (un)affordability, (in)security and (in)justice as social determinants of health / Nicola Livingstone

11. Providing public income support may advance public health: Recent federal policy developments in Canada's social safety net / Michael J. Prince

Part IV. Special populations: The isms and social exclusion

12. Huronia's lessons: How ableist violence determines health / Jen Rinaldi

13. Classism and health inequities: What the body remembers / Elizabeth McGibbon

14. The political economy of racialized health inequities: A panoramic view / Arnel M. Borras

15. Intersectional and embodied: Migration as a social determinant of health / Denise L. Spitzer

16. Metropolitan health in a neoliberalizing world / Ted Schrecker

17. Colonialism and indigenous peoples / Darrel Manitowabi

18. Decolonizing social determinants of health? South American perspectives and future challenges / Cristian Montenegro and Felipe Szabzon

Part V. Geographies of special importance

19. An overview of social determinants of health in Africa / Morris D. C. Komakech

20. The social determinants of superbugs: Antimicrobial resistance in south asia / Katia S. Mohindra, Fariha Haseen and Madison Adams

21. Social determinants of health in continental Europe and the relevance of migration / Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Ina Teresa Wilczewska

22. The establishment of a market model of healthcare in chile: 1973-90 / Jaime Llambías-Wolff

23. Policies to address the social determinants of health: A nordic perspective / Elisabeth Fosse

24. Social and commercial determinants of health and health equity in australia / Fran Baum and Toby Freeman

Part VI. Emerging themes

25. Economic globalization / Ted Schrecker

26. Austerity, neoliberalism and population health / Gerry McCartney

27. Crisis of capitalism: Social welfare states or socialist states as the way forward? / Dennis Raphael and Toba Bryant

28. The anthropocenes: Collisions with the social determinants of health / Elizabeth McGibbon

Part VII. Moving forward

29. The promise of left politics / Dennis Pilon

30. Morbid symptoms: Edging towards the end of the neoliberal age / Simon Winlow

31. Challenging power and structural inequality through intersectional movement building / Shauna MacKinnon

Part VIIi. Conclusion

32. Conclusion: Prospects for political and social transformation / Toba Bryant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781035302093 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.