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Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice
Hofrichter, Richard; Bhatia, Rajiv
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Description for Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice
Paperback. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: MBN; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 840.
Social justice has always been a core value driving public health. Today, much of the etiology of avoidable disease is rooted in inequitable social conditions brought on by disparities in wealth and power and reproduced through ongoing forms of oppression, exploitation, and marginalization. Tackling Health Inequities raises questions and provides a starting point for health practitioners ready to reorient public health practice to address the fundamental causes of health inequities. This reorientation involves restructuring the organization, culture and daily work of public health. Tackling Health Inequities is meant to inspire readers to imagine or envision public health practice and ... Read more
Social justice has always been a core value driving public health. Today, much of the etiology of avoidable disease is rooted in inequitable social conditions brought on by disparities in wealth and power and reproduced through ongoing forms of oppression, exploitation, and marginalization. Tackling Health Inequities raises questions and provides a starting point for health practitioners ready to reorient public health practice to address the fundamental causes of health inequities. This reorientation involves restructuring the organization, culture and daily work of public health. Tackling Health Inequities is meant to inspire readers to imagine or envision public health practice and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195343144
SKU
V9780195343144
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99-99
About Hofrichter, Richard; Bhatia, Rajiv
Richard Hofrichter is Senior Analyst, Health Equity for the National Association of County & City Health Officials. Rajiv Bhatia is Director, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health at the San Francisco Department of Public Health as well as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco
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