Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Goldberg, Daniel S. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Public Health,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Ethics.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• The Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding the Social Determinants of Health
• Justice, Compound Disadvantage, and Health Inequities
• Ethics, Responsibility, and Social Patterning of Risky Health Behaviors
• The Unbearable Oughtness of Public Health Policy
• The Social Determinants of Health and Public Health Practice
• Conclusion.