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SKU: EB-11396 Categories: Ebook-PDF, Social Science Tags: Fries, Pursuing Health, Segall, Wellness

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0195430670
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0195430677
Author: Alexander Segall (Author), Christopher J. Fries (Author)

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:

Understanding health and wellness sociologically
Introducing health sociology
Applying the sociological imagination to health, illness, and the body
Measuring the dimensions of health
Exploring the factors that shape health and wellness
Making people healthy: general determinants of health and wellness
Addressing sources of inequality and health disparities: social class
Addressing sources of inequality and health disparities: gender
Addressing sources of inequality and health disparities: ethnicity and life course
Unravelling the mystery of health: an intersectional model
Pursuing health and wellness
Discovering the hidden depts of health care: lay beliefs, social support, and informal care
Medicalizing beings and bodies: the link between population health and biomedical care
Moving beyond biomedicine: medical pluralism
Achieving healthy futures