Social determinants of health /
Social determinants of health / edited by Michael Marmot and Richard G. Wilkinson - 2. ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 - 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- 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
0198565895 (pbk) 9780198565895 (pbk)
health--medicine--social conditions--psychology--food--poverty--diseases--labour--employment--children
Folkhälsa
Medicinsk sociologi
Socialmedicin
public health social medicine delivery of health care social status indicators socioeconomic factors
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- 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
0198565895 (pbk) 9780198565895 (pbk)
health--medicine--social conditions--psychology--food--poverty--diseases--labour--employment--children
Folkhälsa
Medicinsk sociologi
Socialmedicin
public health social medicine delivery of health care social status indicators socioeconomic factors