Research Catalog

Title

Political and economic determinants of population health and well-being : controversies and developments / edited by Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner.

Publication

Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Navarro, Vicente.
• Muntaner, Carles, 1957-

Description

vii, 575 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Policy, politics, health and medicine series

Uniform Title

Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)

Subject

• Social medicine
• Health services accessibility
• Medical economics
• Health status indicators
• Public health > Social aspects
• Social Medicine
• Health Services Accessibility
• Health Status Indicators
• Public Health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : toward an integrated political, economic, and cultural understanding of health inequalities / Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner -- Pt. I. Social policy -- 1. Development and quality of life : a critique of Amartya Sen's development as freedom / Vicente Navarro -- 2. Gender equity and the population problem / Amartya Sen -- 3. Inequality in the social consequences of illness : how well do people with long-term illness fare in the British and Swedish labor markets? / Bo Burstrom, Margaret Whitehead, Christina Lindholm and Finn Diderichsen -- 4. Economic growth, inequality, and the economic position of the poor in 1985-1995 : an international perspective / Olli Kangas -- 5. Cross-national income inequality : how great is it and what can we learn from it? / Timothy M. Smeeding and Peter Gottschalk -- 6. Inequality as a basis for the U.S. emergence from the great stagnation / Robert Chernomas -- Pt. II. Globalization -- 7. The scorecard on globalization 1980-2000 : its consequences for economic and social well-being / Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Egor Kraev and Judy Chen -- 8. The widening gap in death rates among income groups in the United States from 1967 to 1986 / Lisa Miller Schalick, Wilbur C. Hadden, Elsie Pamuk, Vicente Navarro and Gregory Pappas -- 9. Dependent convergence : the importation of technological hazards by semiperipheral countries / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Charles Levenstein -- 10. How the United States exports managed care to developing countries / Howard Waitzkin and Celia Iriart -- Pt. III. Health policy -- 11. The new conventional wisdom : an evaluation of the WHO report health systems : improving performance / Vicente Navarro -- 12. Cost containment and the backdraft of competition policies / Donald W. Light -- 13. Upstream healthy public policy : lessons from the battle of tobacco / John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau -- Pt. IV. Health care -- 14. Phases of capitalism, welfare states, medical dominance, and health care in Ontario / David Coburn -- 15. Does investor-ownership of nursing homes compromise the quality of care? / Charlene Harrington, Steffie Woolhandler, Joseph Mullan, Hellen Carrillo and David U. Himmelstein -- 16. Hospital ownership and preventable adverse events / Eric J. Thomas, E. John Orav and Troyen A. Brennan -- 17. Social inequalities in perceived health and the use of health services in a Southern European urban area / Carme Borrell, Izabella Rohlfs, Josep Ferrando, M. Isabel Pasarin, Felicitas Dominguez-Berjon and Antoni Plasencia -- Pt. V. Occupational health and labor unions -- 18. Health care workers' unions and health insurance : the 1199 story / Howard S. Berliner, Geoffrey Gibson and Cyprian Devine-Perez -- 19. Role of trade unions in workplace health promotion / Mauri Johansson and Timo Partanen -- 20. One-eyed science : scientists, workplace reproductive hazards, and the right to work / Karen Messing -- 21. Labor, social, and human rights -- A. Case studies of violations of workers' freedom of association : service sector workers -- B. Case studies of violations of workers' freedom of association : manufacturing workers / Human Rights Watch -- Pt. VI. Social capital versus class, gender, and race -- 22. A critique of social capital / Vicente Navarro -- 23. Economic inequality, working-class power, social capital, and cause-specific mortality in wealthy countries / Carles Muntaner, John W. Lynch, Marianne Hillemeier, Ju Hee Lee, Richard David, Joan Benach and Carme Borrell -- 24. Social capital, disorganized communities, and the third way : understanding the retreat from structural inequalities in epidemiology and public health / Carles Muntaner, John Lynch and George Davey Smith -- 25. Community health centers and racial/ethnic disparities in healthy life / Leiyu Shi, Jerrilynn Regan, Robert M. Politzer and Jue Luo -- 26. Gender, race, class, and aging : advances and opportunities / Paula Dressel, Meredith Minkler and Irene Yen -- Pt. VII. Ideology, theory, and research policy -- 27. People and places : contrasting perspectives on the association between social class and health / George A. Kaplan -- 28. A debate on race, racism, health, and epidemiology -- A. Race in epidemiology / Paul D. Stolley -- B. Refiguring "race" : epidemiology, racialized biology, and biological expressions of race relations / Nancy Krieger -- C. On the study of race, racism, and health : a shift from description to explanation / Thomas A. LaVeist -- D. Reply to commentaries by Drs. Krieger and LaVeist on "race in epidemiology" / Paul D. Stolley -- 29. Anti-egalitarianism, legitimizing myths, racism, and "Neo-McCarthysism" in social epidemiology and public health : a review of Sally Satel's PC, M.D. / Carles Muntaner and Marisela B. Gomez -- 30. Whose epidemiology, whose health? / Steve Wing -- Conclusion : political, economic, and cultural determinants of population health - a research agenda / Carles Muntaner and Vicente Navarro.

ISBN

• 0895032783 (cloth)
• 0895032791 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004041140

OCLC

• ocm54365226
• SCSB-5081447

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries