Nancy Krieger

Epidemiology and the People's Health

Theory and Context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This concise, conceptually rich, and accessible book is a rallying cry for a return to the study and discussion of epidemiologic theory: what it is, why it matters, how it has changed over time, and its implications for improving population health and promoting health equity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780199348428
• ISBN-10: 0199348421
• Artikelnr.: 39338648

Autorenporträt

Nancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology Health. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. In 1994 she co-founded, and still chairs, the Spirit of 1848 Caucus of the American Public Health Association, which is concerned with the links between social justice and public health.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1: Does Epidemiologic Theory Exist? On Science. Data, and
Explaining
* Disease Distribution
* Chapter 2: Health in the Balance: Early Theories About Patterns of
* Disease Occurrence
* Chapter 3: Epidemiology Emerges: Early Theories and Debating
Determinants of
* Disease Distribution-Poison. Filth, Class, and Race ( 1600-1900)
* Chapter 4: Epidemiology Expands: Germs, Genes. and the (Social)
* Environment ( 1900-1950)
* Chapter 5: Contemporary Mainstream Epidemiologic Theory:
* Biomedical and Lifestyle
* Chapter 6: Social Epidemiologic Alternatives: Sociopolitical
* and Psychosocial Frameworks
* Chapter 7: Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution: Embodying
* Societal and Ecologic Context
* Chapter 8: Epidemiologic Theory Counts: Harm, Knowledge,
* Action, and the People's Health