TY - BOOK AU - Ratcliff,Kathryn Strother TI - The social determinants of health: looking upstream SN - 9781509504350 (ebook) PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity KW - Social medicine KW - Public health KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc KW - Social services & welfare, criminology KW - thema KW - Sociology KW - Chemistry KW - Family & health KW - Public health & preventive medicine KW - Medical sociology KW - Sociology & anthropology KW - Medicine: general issues KW - Health systems & services KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781509504329; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web N2 - 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 UR - http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestLondon&isbn=9781509504350 ER -