Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

ISBN-13: 9780367664169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str.

Fernando de Maio; Ignacio Llovet; Graciela Dinardi

Opis

This book brings together some of the most promising work in the sociology of health and illness originating in Latin America. The chapters in this book were originally published as a Special Issue of Health Sociology Review, and as individual papers in Global Public Health, and Critical Public Health.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Blurred logics behind frontline staff decision-making for cancer control in Argentina  2. Sexual and reproductive health: perceptions of indigenous migrant women in North Western Mexico  3. Reproductive health and Bolivian migration in restrictive contexts of access to the health system in Córdoba  4. Doctor–patient relationships amid changes in contemporary society: a view from the health communication field  5. Social disparities producing health inequities and shaping sickle cell disorder in Brazil  6. Socio/Ethno-epidemiologies: proposals and possibilities from the Latin American production  7. Mitigating social and health inequities: Community participation and Chagas disease in rural Argentina  8. Chagas disease in non-endemic countries: ‘sick immigrant’ phobia or a public health concern?  9. Extending the income inequality hypothesis: Ecological results from the 2005 and 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys

O autorze

Fernando De Maio is Associate Professor of Sociology at DePaul University, Chicago, USA.

Ignacio Llovet is Full Professor of Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Graciela Dinardi is Professor of Research Methods at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.