Ecosocial theory, embodied truths, and the people's health /
"Is it a mystery that people subjected to economic deprivation, discrimination, and hazardous working and living conditions, compounded by histories of enslavement and colonization, typically have worse health, worse health care, and die younger than people with economic, social, and legal priv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Small books with big ideas ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Is it a mystery that people subjected to economic deprivation, discrimination, and hazardous working and living conditions, compounded by histories of enslavement and colonization, typically have worse health, worse health care, and die younger than people with economic, social, and legal privileges? It shouldn't be. Observations about associations between societal power, position and health status, that is, the societal patterning of population health, appear in the earliest known medical writings, dating back several millennia - e.g., in texts from the ancient Egyptian, Greek, Indian, and Chinese civilizations, to name a few . Systematic documentation of such associations was also central to many of the founding reports, in the mid-19th century, of the field of public health in Europe and the Americas"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 333 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197510759 0197510752 9780197510735 0197510736 0197510744 9780197510742 |