Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health

• Main Author: Goldberg, Daniel S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health,
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.