Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health

This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic...

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Main Author Goldberg, Daniel S. (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesSpringerBriefs in Public Health,
Subjects
Medicine.
Ethics.
Public health.
Medical ethics.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding the Social Determinants of Health
  • Justice, Compound Disadvantage, and Health Inequities
  • Ethics, Responsibility, and Social Patterning of Risky Health Behaviors
  • The Unbearable Oughtness of Public Health Policy
  • The Social Determinants of Health and Public Health Practice
  • Conclusion.

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