The Politics of Social, Ecological, and Structural Determinants of Health in Canada is the first Canadian book to examine intersections of social, ecological, and structural determinants of health as the crucial pathway to tackling growing health inequities in Canada.
Critical perspectives on the social and ecological determinants of health are explored using detailed and easily accessible case studies. Each chapter integrates how health and illness are rooted in social, economic, and political structures, with clear explanations of how societal power and ruling relations so strongly determine human and planetary health. Bringing together health, social, ecological, and political sciences, this text makes the case that the structural determinants of health are increasingly urgent and pivotal markers of who lives and who dies. The text also explores earth-centred policy and governance strategies to lessen and halt extreme inequities.
This powerful text will serve a broad scope of readers, including students and researchers in health, social, and geological sciences; practitioners and policy-makers; and people in non governmental and not-for-profit organizations.
FEATURES
the first text of its kind to integrate the social, ecological, and structural determinants of health together as synergistic, health-determining influences
written from the perspective of an insider and clinician in the health fields, this text integrates focused attention to the embodied nature of health damage and how it interacts with ecosystem damage
includes pedagogical features such as case studies, questions for critical thought, annotated further readings, and annotated websites of interest to guide readers in navigating root determinants of health
Introduction to the Politics of Health Series [by Dennis Raphael]
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 How Politics are Determinants of Health
Chapter 2 Critical Policy Analysis Approaches for the Determinants of Health
Chapter 3 Critical Perspectives on the Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 4 Ecological Determinants of Health: Threats to Earth’s Life Support Systems
Chapter 5 Structural Determinants of Health: Root Cause Politics
Chapter 6 Root Determinants of Health are Complex Adaptive Systems
Chapter 7 Mobilizing for Democracy
Index
Biography
Dr. Elizabeth McGibbon, PhD, RN, is an applied critical health social scientist and a Professor in the Faculty of Science at St. Francis Xavier University.
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