(eBook PDF) Essentials of Health Justice

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 128416960X
• ISBN-13: 9781284169607
• Author: Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, Joel B. Teitelbaum

Essentials of Health Justice is a short stand-alone text or supplemental primer for a wide range of undergraduate and graduate public health, health policy, medical, nursing, health administration, and other health profession courses that focus on or include content on the social determinants of health, underserved populations, health equity, and the relationship between social justice and health. Essentials of Health Justice will serve to enhance discussion of the many legal, structural and policy issues underlying health disparities; the various public health and health care interventions geared toward improving access and better outcomes for vulnerable populations; and the ways in which the nation can better achieve health equity and justice.

Table contents:

Part I Context and Background
Chapter 1 Introductory Frameworks, Definitions and Theories for Health Justice
Chapter 2 Lessons from U.S. Social Movements for Health Justice

Part II Aspects of the Legal System that Undermine Health Justice
Chapter 3 The Roles of the Three Branches of Government in Health Law and Policy
Chapter 4 Health-Harming Legal Doctrines
Chapter 5 International Human Rights, Health, and the Failure of United States Leadership
Chapter 6 Discrimination, Implicit Bias, and the Limits of the Law

Part III Structural Inequity and Health Injustice
Chapter 7 Socioeconomic Status, Unmet Social Needs and Health
Chapter 8 Place-Based Inequities
Chapter 9 The Carceral State

Part IV Historically Marginalized Populations and Health Injustice
Chapter 10 Asian, Black, Indigenous and Latinx People (authored by Prof. Ruqaiijah Yearby)
Chapter 11 Immigrants
Chapter 12 Women
Chapter 13 LGBTQ+ People (co-authored by Prof. Heather Walter-McCabe)
Chapter 14 People with Disabilities
Chapter 15 Existing Efforts to Achieve Health Justice

Part V Striving for Health Justice: Structural and Policy Change
Chapter 16 Law, Policy and Structural Change: New Directions for Health Justice

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