Social Sources of Disparities in Health and Health Care and Linkages to Policy, Population Concerns and Providers of Care (Hardcover, New)

"Volume 27, Research in the Sociology of Health Care" deals with Social Sources of Disparities in Health and Health Care. The first section, Disparities in Health and Health Care: Basic Perspectives, reviews basic material on the topic. The second section on Racial and Ethnic Factors in Disparities in Health and Health Care Utilization includes five articles, three focused on racial and ethnic factors in disparities and two on those factors and other social factors such as SES. The next section focuses on Income, SES, and Cultural Capital in Disparities in Health and Health Care Delivery and includes an article that focuses on the role of education, one on the impact of childhood poverty on later life health and one on the role of cultural capital in health outcomes. The fourth section includes two papers on Providers, Facilities and Health Disparities. The last section, Part 5, deals with Locally Oriented Studies in Health Disparities and includes three papers looking at community approaches for eliminating health disparities, the effects of household assets upon rural residents' self-reported physical and emotional well-being and disparities in health care among Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans and the impacts of Hurricane Katrina.

General

Imprint:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Research in the Sociology of Health Care
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Series editors:	Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84855-834-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN:	1-84855-834-1
Barcode:	9781848558342

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