Globalization is breaking down economic, political, cultural, demographic, and social barriers across the world at an astonishing pace. The topic of globalization can arouse passionate debate in many circles including academic journals, the popular media, and even on the streets. This new world order is marked by new actors, new rules of governance, new forms of communication, and the global movement of populations. Health is an exquisitely sensitive mirror of social conditions, and the authors of this book argue that the assessment of health is an important criterion for evaluating and...
Globalization is breaking down economic, political, cultural, demographic, and social barriers across the world at an astonishing pace. The topic of g...
Social Capital and Health discusses social capital a concept that originated in the social sciences and its application to the field of public health. The editors take care to define the concept of social capital, describe its theoretical origins, and discuss the controversies and debates surrounding the use of the concept in public health research and practice. The book provides a comprehensive "tool kit" of current approaches to measure social capital. Further, the book surveys the empirical evidence linking social capital to physical and mental health outcomes, health-related behaviors...
Social Capital and Health discusses social capital a concept that originated in the social sciences and its application to the field of public heal...
Social Capital and Health discusses social capital a concept that originated in the social sciences and its application to the field of public health. The editors take care to define the concept of social capital, describe its theoretical origins, and discuss the controversies and debates surrounding the use of the concept in public health research and practice. The book provides a comprehensive "tool kit" of current approaches to measure social capital. Further, the book surveys the empirical evidence linking social capital to physical and mental health outcomes, health-related behaviors...
Social Capital and Health discusses social capital a concept that originated in the social sciences and its application to the field of public heal...
This book is a follow up to Social Capital and Health (2008), edited by Kawachi, Subramanian & Kim. Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health provides a timely update on emerging topics in a fast-growing field, and features contributions from an outstanding international team of scholars, selected from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds including: social epidemiology, medical geography, social psychology, social welfare and gerontology, pediatrics, political science, economics, and medical sociology. The book is organized in three parts: Part 1. Emerging directions in social...
This book is a follow up to Social Capital and Health (2008), edited by Kawachi, Subramanian & Kim. Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health p...
Lisa F., PH.D. Berkman Ichiro Kawachi Maria Glymour
Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health. This much-awaited second edition elevates the field again, first by codifying the last decade of research, then by extending it to examine how public policies impact health. The new edition includes: - 11 fully updated chapters, including...
Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link ...
Lisa F., PH.D. Berkman Ichiro Kawachi Maria Glymour
Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health. This much-awaited second edition elevates the field again, first by codifying the last decade of research, then by extending it to examine how public policies impact health. The new edition includes: - 11 fully updated chapters, including...
Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link ...
Christina A. Roberto Ichiro Kawachi Christina A. Roberto
Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform healthy food choices? Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first book to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the persisting problems of health behaviors and behavior change. In addition to providing a primer on the behavioral economics principles that...
Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat ...
The health effects of psychosocial factors are a controversial topic. Do positive and negative emotions affect our physical health? And can we improve life expectancy by being happier or more positive? Provides methodological rigour, critical analysis and policy implications, this important book is the first to map what we know about psychosocial epidemiology, taking advantage of a huge growth in research, including several 'mega' studies. With chapters on a range of chronic conditions, and authored by leading researchers in the field, it will be invaluable resource for students and...
The health effects of psychosocial factors are a controversial topic. Do positive and negative emotions affect our physical health? And can we impr...
Ichiro Kawachi, Soshi Takao, and S.V. Subramanian, editors
The idea of social capital emerged in the social science disciplines to explain puzzling phenomena such as why some communities fare better in crisis than others. As the field matures, it has been adapted to wide-ranging issues such as population health, making many question its status as a concept.
Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health presents the major research issues as well as nuanced theoretical discussion in keeping...
Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health
Ichiro Kawachi, Soshi Takao, and S.V. Subramanian, editors
