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The Health of Populations - General Theories and Practical Realities (Hardcover)
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The Health of Populations - General Theories and Practical Realities (Hardcover)
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In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social
determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion
on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While
this area of research deals in complex problems, it is often
dominated by those who deploy rather categorical, partisan
positions, citing from a wide range of contradictory statistical
studies. Stephen Kunitz brings a measured, balanced and independent
perspective to bear on the debate, taking a step back from current
arguments to look at the fundamental issues through a
socio-historical lens. Part I describes how ideas about the costs
and benefits of industrialization, and about the causes of disease,
have been used by writers from different ideological persuasions to
explain the health of populations. Part II focuses on some of the
ideas that have been particularly influential in contemporary
debates: factors such as standard of living, community and its
loss, inequality, and globalization. The fact that these have been
used to support differing explanations of the determinants of
population health suggests that there are no easy generalizations
in a field with so many discrepant findings. Scientists often
ignore anomalous findings in the interests of advancing a
particular paradigm, until the anomalies outweigh the norm and a
new paradigm is created. This book argues that in considering
social determinants of health, no meaningful over-arching
explanations may be possible. Rather, it is by immersion in the
reality of particular contexts - work settings, historical periods,
geopolitical regions, and governmental credos - that we may gain a
better understanding of the way in which socialforces shape
patterns of health and disease.
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