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With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health. It builds upon the success of the first by encompassing a range of issues, studies, and disciplines. The broad coverage of topics in addition to new chapters present an engagement with contemporary issues, resulting in a valuable teaching aid.
This second edition brings together a diverse range of leading international scholars with
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With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health. It builds upon the success of the first by encompassing a range of issues, studies, and disciplines. The broad coverage of topics in addition to new chapters present an engagement with contemporary issues, resulting in a valuable teaching aid.

This second edition brings together a diverse range of leading international scholars with contributors from Australia, Puerto-Rico, USA, Guatemala, Germany, Sri Lanka, Botswana, UK, South Sudan, Mexico, South Korea, Canada and more. The second edition of this Handbook remains a key resource for undergraduates, post-graduates, and researchers across multidisciplinary backgrounds including: medicine, health and social care, sociology, and anthropology.

PART ONE:Culture, Society and Health

PART TWO: Lived Experiences

PART THREE: Health Care Systems, Access and Use

PART FOUR: Health in Environmental and Planetary Context
Autorenporträt
Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD, was an editor and author for the first edition of this Handbook. She is a medical anthropologist who grew up in Guatemala and has worked globally, particularly in Latin America and with Latino and African American populations in the U.S. She was Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, and President of Russell Sage College. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1993, and is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her awards include the Margaret Mead Award, the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal, and a Hero of Public Health Gold Medal presented by former President Vicente Fox of Mexico. Her research includes community participatory research methods, combining qualitative and quantitative research, health disparities, pregnancy outcomes, health communication, and culturally appropriate delivery of health care