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The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream
Kathryn Strother Ratcliff
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Description for The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream
Hardback. This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JH; PN; VF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the upstream imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment. Each chapter explains how the policies, politics, and power behind corporate and governmental decisions and actions produce unhealthy circumstances of living such as poverty, pollution, dangerous working conditions, and unhealthy modes of food production and how putting profit and politics over people is unhealthy and unsustainable. ... Read more
This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world not individual responsibility nor the health care system is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the upstream imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment. Each chapter explains how the policies, politics, and power behind corporate and governmental decisions and actions produce unhealthy circumstances of living such as poverty, pollution, dangerous working conditions, and unhealthy modes of food production and how putting profit and politics over people is unhealthy and unsustainable. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509504312
SKU
V9781509504312
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99-50
About Kathryn Strother Ratcliff
Kathryn Strother Ratcliff is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.
Reviews for The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream
This book offers a fresh, original, and much needed approach to social determinants of health. Ratcliff shows through straightforward, clear writing punctuated with timely and riveting examples how the conditions of life that we take for granted are created and maintained. At the same time, she strikes a balance by underscoring both human agency and the realities of power dynamics, ... Read more