The social determinants of health : looking upstream / Kathryn Strother Ratcliff.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Polity, 2017Description: vii, 254 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781509504350 (ebook)Subject(s): Social medicine | Public health | Health and Wellbeing | Social services & welfare, criminology | Sociology | Chemistry | Family & health | Public health & preventive medicine | Medical sociology | Sociology & anthropology | Medicine: general issues | Health systems & servicesGenre/Form: Online access: Click here, 1 copy Also available in printed form ISBN 9781509504329Summary: A compelling and accessible introduction which explores how social factors, like poverty and pollution, can create and maintain health disparities. This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the 'upstream' imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A compelling and accessible introduction which explores how social factors, like poverty and pollution, can create and maintain health disparities. This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the 'upstream' imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781509504329
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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