Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series) - Hardcover

Krieger, Nancy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895032945 ISBN 13: 9780895032942

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" between 1990 and 2000. Framed by ecosocial theory, it employs ecosocial constructs of "embodiment"; "pathways of embodiment"; "cumulative interplay of exposure, susceptibility, and resistance across the lifecourse"; and "accountability and agency" to address the question; and who and what drives current and changing patterns of social inequalities in health.

About this title

From the Publisher

INTENDED AUDIENCE Epidemiologists, public health researchers, public health practitioners, public health advocates and activists, public health historians, health care providers, policymakers, social scientists; health researchers, practitioners, advocates and policymakers concerned with social disparities in health, including class inequalities (including occupational health), racial/ethnic inequalities, gender inequalities and women's health, and disparities involving sexuality (including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health) and disability.

About the Author

ABOUT THE EDITOR Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist, is Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health at Harvard School of Public Health; Associate Director of the Harvard Center of Society and Health; and cofounder and chair of the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association. Krieger received her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. Her background includes biochemistry, philosophy of science, and the history of public health. She also has 20 years of engagement in issues of social justice, science, and health. Her work focuses on the etiology of, monitoring of, and theories to explain population distributions of disease and social disparities in health.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0895032945
• ISBN 13: 9780895032942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 552