Ecosocial theory, embodied truths, and the people's health / Nancy Krieger.
| Author/creator | Krieger, Nancy |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] |
| Description | 333 pages ; 19 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Series | Small books, big ideas in population health ; 4 Small books with big ideas ; 4. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | From Embodying Injustice to Embodying Equity: Embodied Truths and the Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution -- Embodying (In)justice and Embodied Truths: Using Ecosocial Theory to Analyze Population Health Data -- Challenges: Embodied Truths, Vision, and Advancing Health Justice. |
| Abstract | "Is it a mystery that people subjected to economic deprivation, discrimination, and hazardous working and living conditions, compounded by histories of enslavement and colonization, typically have worse health, worse health care, and die younger than people with economic, social, and legal privileges? It shouldn't be. Observations about associations between societal power, position and health status, that is, the societal patterning of population health, appear in the earliest known medical writings, dating back several millennia - e.g., in texts from the ancient Egyptian, Greek, Indian, and Chinese civilizations, to name a few . Systematic documentation of such associations was also central to many of the founding reports, in the mid-19th century, of the field of public health in Europe and the Americas"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021024150 |
| ISBN | 9780197510728 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |