Social determinants of health
by
Marmot, M. G.
Title
:
Social determinants of health
Author
:
Marmot, M. G.
ISBN
:
9780198565895
Edition
:
2nd ed.
Publication Information
:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006.
Physical Description
:
x, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
General Note
:
1st ed. published: Copenhagen : World Health Organization, 1998.
Contents
:
Social organization, stress, and health / Early life / The life course, the social gradient, and health / Health and labour market disadvantage: unemployment, non-employment, and job insecurity / Health and the psychosocial environment at work / Transport and health / Social support and social cohesion / Food is a political issue / Poverty, social exclusion, and minorities / Social patterning of individual health behaviours: the case of cigarette smoking / The social determination of ethnic/racial inequalities in health / Social determinants of health in older age / Neighbourhoods, housing, and health / Social determinants, sexual behaviour, and sexual health / Ourselves and others - for better or worse: social vulnerability and inequality
Abstract
:
1. Introduction; 2. Social organization, stress and health; 3. Early life; 4. The life course, the social gradient and health; 5. Health and labour market disadvantage: unemployment, non-employment and job insecurity; 6. Health and the psychosocial environment at work; 7. Transport and health; 8. Social supoort and social cohesion; 9.
Subject Term
:
Public health -- Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Medical policy -- Social aspects.
Added Author
:
Marmot, M. G.
Wilkinson, Richard G.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025528379 | 362.1 M352S 2006 | 1 |