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  • How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    by Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book makes a powerful case that neoliberalism, the dominant economic and social policy paradigm of the post-1980 world, is hazardous to our health. It describes the destructive effects on health and health inequalities of neoliberal policies including labour market deregulation, welfare state retrenchment, and austerity, drawing on cross-national examples particularly from the United States ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Globalization and Health

    Pathways, Evidence and Policy

    Edited by Ronald Labonté, Ted Schrecker, Corinne Packer, Vivien Runnels ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project undertaken by the Globalisation Knowledge Network (GKN) of the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to the Globalization of Health

    Edited by Ted Schrecker ...
    Global health has emerged as a distinct field of academic research and professional activity. Over the last decade, health has become an important element of many nations' foreign policies, a routine agenda item for the G8 and a rapidly expanding focus of bilateral and multilateral development assistance. Some aspects of health, like the spread of easily transmitted communicable diseases, are self ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Dennis Raphael ...
    Series Book 11 - About Canada
    Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy lifestyle as the keys to health. About Canada: Health and Illness tells a different story.In this new, updated edition, Dennis Raphael shows that living ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Toward the Healthy City

    People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Social Injustice and Public Health

    by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman ...
    Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Oppression

    A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition

    by Elizabeth McGibbon ...
    In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of the root or structural causes of ill health, such as capitalism, globalization, colonialism, medicalization and neoliberalism. The contributors to this volume insist that the key to tackling these structural ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

    Europe, America, and the Third World

    by Robert William Fogel ...
    Series Book 38 - Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
    Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Comparative Health Policy

    by Robert H. Blank, Viola Burau, Ellen Kuhlmann ...
    A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today. ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Social Murder?

    Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK

    by David Walsh, Gerry McCartney ...
    Life expectancy is about more than just health – it’s about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improvement, life expectancy in the UK, US and many other rich countries stopped increasing. For millions of people, it actually declined. Despite hundreds of thousands of extra deaths, governments and officials remained silent.Combining robust evidence ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Unequal Pandemic

    COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

    by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch ...
    Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemicEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- NDIt has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’.This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal ... Read more

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