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Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0195430670
- ISBN-13 : 978-0195430677
- Author: Alexander Segall, Christopher J. Fries
This innovative new book unravels many of the prevailing mysteries surrounding the pursuit of health and wellness today. Focusing explicitly on health rather than illness, Persuing Health and Wellness analyzes the way in which health and the conditions necessary for wellness are unequally distributed within society and argues that healthy societies foster healthy people. Organized into three parts, the text examines the sociological foundations of the discipline and health as a social construct before looking at the social determinants of health; the structural and behavioural factors that influence it; and the informal and formal components of the health-care system. Students will learn about the guidelines for measuring health, while considering personal, professional, and public responsibilities in the quest for good health. Engaging and comprehensive, Pursuing Health and Wellness advocates the creation of healthy societies in which people can engage in the active pursuit of healthy living and is essential reading for all students studying the sociology of health.
Table contents:
1 | Introducing Health Sociology
2 | Applying the Sociological Imagination to Health and Illness
3 | Measuring the Dimensions of Health
4 | Making People Healthy: General Determinants of Health and Wellness
5 | Addressing Sources of Inequality and Health Disparities: Socioeconomic Status
6 | Addressing Sources of Inequality and Health Disparities: Gender
7 | Addressing Sources of Inequality and Health Disparities: Ethnicity
8 | Unravelling the Mystery of Health: An Intersectional Model of Health across the Life Course
9 | Discovering the Hidden Depths of Health Care: Lay Beliefs, Social Support, and Informal Care
10 | Medicalizing Beings and Bodies: The Link between Population Health and Biomedical Care
11 | Moving beyond Biomedicine: Medical Pluralism
12 | Achieving Healthy Futures
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