Global health inequities : a sociological perspective

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Title:

Author:

De Maio, Fernando, 1976- author.

ISBN:

9780230304376

9780230304383

Personal Author:

De Maio, Fernando, 1976- author.

Physical Description:

xvi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Sociology for globalizing societies

Sociology for globalizing societies.

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding Global Health -- 3. The Epidemiological Transition -- 4. The Burden of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases -- 5. Neglected Tropical Diseases -- 6. Treating the Sick -- 7. Reducing Health Inequities.

Abstract:

Despite living in a globalized world there exist staggering inequalities in health. Global Health Inequities questions taken-for-granted assumptions about globalization and health. Critical but accessible, the book links theory and empirical work to elucidate key debates, highlighting the most significant challenges facing global health today.

Subject Term:

Global Health.

Health Status Disparities.

Healthcare Disparities.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Sociology, Medical.

World health -- Sociological aspects.

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Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pharmaceutical developments, access to already-existing medicines is hindered by economic and political barriers for poor people around the world.Critical but accessible, Global Health Inequities questions taken-for-granted assumptions, showing how breakthroughs in biomedicine alone cannot address inequities in health. The book's analysis of theory and empirical work elucidates key debates and highlights the most significant challenges facing global health today, including the growing burden of chronic non-communicable diseases and the persistent injustice of neglected tropical diseases.Fernando De Maio identifies the need for sociological analysis in global health, drawing together research from public health, sociology, anthropology and related fields, in order to expand the scope of the medical gaze towards a more holistic and structural perspective of health inequity.