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  title info:
    title: Epidemiology and the people's health
    sub title: theory and context
  name:
    name part: Krieger, Nancy
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: uk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "Epidemiology is often referred to as the science of public health. However, unlike other major sciences, its theoretical foundations are rarely articulated. While the idea of epidemiologic theory may seem dry and arcane, it is at its core about explaining the people's health. It is about life and death. It is about biology and society. It is about ecology and the economy. It is about how myriad aspects of people's lives--involving work, dignity, desire, love, play, conflict, discrimination, and injustice--become literally incorporated biologically into our bodies and manifest in our health status, individually and collectively. And it is about essential knowledge critical for improving the people's health and minimizing inequitable burdens of disease, disability, and death. Woven from a vast array of schools of thought, including those in the natural, social, and biomedical sciences, epidemiologic theory is a rich tapestry whose time for analysis is long overdue. By tracing its history and contours from ancient societies on through the development of--and debates within--contemporary epidemiology worldwide, Nancy Krieger shows how epidemiologic theory has long shaped epidemiologic practice, knowledge, and the politics of public health. Outlining an ecosocial theory of disease distribution that situates both population health and epidemiologic theory in societal and ecologic context, she offers a more holistic picture of how we embody the human experience"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Does epidemiologic theory exist? On science, data, and explaining disease distribution -- Health in the balance : early theories about patterns of disease occurrence -- Epidemiology emerges : early theories and debating determinants of disease distribution - poison, filth, class & race (1600-1900) -- Epidemiology expands : germs, genes, and the (social) environment (1900-1950) -- Contemporary mainstream epidemiologic theory : biomedical and lifestyle -- Social epidemiologic alternatives : sociopolitical and psychosocial frameworks -- Ecosocial theory of disease distribution : embodying societal & ecologic context -- Epidemiologic theory counts : harm, knowledge, action, and the people's health
  note: Nancy Krieger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiologic Methods
  classification: RA651 .K75 2011
  classification: 614.4
  classification: WA 105
  classification: WA 105 K926e 2011
  identifier: 9780195383874 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 0195383877 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  identifier: 2010049897
  record info:
    record content source: DNLM/DLC
    record creation date: 101123
    record change date: 20191204153910.0
    record identifier: in00004515207