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Health and societies : changing perspectives /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curtis, Sarah
Other Authors: Taket, A. R. (Ann R.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Arnold, 1996.
Subjects:
Health Services > trends.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Health Policy > trends.
Social Medicine > trends.
Global Health.
Table of Contents:
  • Changing perspectives on health and societies: the example of medical geography
  • The concerns of medical geography
  • Traditional medical geography: the roots of a discipline
  • Contemporary medical geography
  • Multiplying medical geographies
  • Changing perspectives on the social construction of health, disease, and illness
  • The mechanistic discourse of the biomedical model
  • Contesting the biomedical model
  • The (re-)emerging socio-ecological discourse on health
  • Contesting concepts of health
  • Women and mental illness: hysteria and the problem of 'nerves'.
  • The construction and deconstruction of homosexuality as a mental illness
  • Discourses around HIV/AIDS: an epidemic of signification
  • Misleading messages
  • 'The gay plague'
  • 'The African problem'
  • 'The white man's disease'
  • Social and spatial inequalities in health
  • Health variations: differences and inequities
  • Measuring inequalities in health
  • International variations in mortality and the epidemiological transition
  • Variation in health at the infranational scale
  • The social dimensions of health inequality.
  • Reforms in national health systems: changing strategies for equity and efficiency
  • The emergence of health services
  • The objectives of health services: efficiency, equity, and effectiveness
  • Comparing health service systems
  • Recognizing the plurality of medicines
  • The hierarchy of health care
  • Schemes for classifying biomedical health service systems
  • The importance of biomedicine and complementary medicines
  • Biomedicine: the changing role of the state
  • Historic differences in the organization of medical care in three countries.
  • Local perspectives on equity and effectiveness of health services
  • Territorial justice or inverse care?
  • What constitutes a socially just distribution?
  • Problems of defining need
  • The limitations of indicators for local needs assessment
  • Regional resource allocation in the British NHS: mortality as a need measure
  • Replacing RAWP: measures of morbidity
  • Measures of social deprivation as indicators of health need
  • Calculating remuneration in general practice
  • Measures for local needs assessment.
  • Action for health gain: the agendas set by public health models
  • The 'new' public health movement
  • Perspectives on public health from disease ecology
  • Environmental change and health strategies
  • Alliances for public health
  • Shifting resources to the primary health care sector
  • The importance of the informal sector
  • Local frameworks for collaboration: example of healthy cities
  • Setting agendas: health policy formulation and implementation
  • Rationalist and incrementalist approaches to policy.
  • Actors in the health policy community
  • Theorizing interactions in the policy community
  • Pluralist approaches
  • Structuralist approaches: structural interest theory and neo-marxism
  • The widening international perspective on health
  • Health and internationalism: a brief historical overview
  • WHO: structure, organization, and functions
  • Towards 2000: issues for a research agenda
  • Pluralism in approaches to health and societies
  • Globalization and interdependence.