Nancy Krieger

Epidemiology and the People's Health (eBook, PDF)

Theory and Context, Second Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on theories employed to explain patterns of disease in their societal and ecological context. The range of theories span from ancient Greece and China and different strands of traditional medicine to the 19th c rise of epidemiology as a scientific discipline on through the present, and contrasts the dominant theories - biomedical and lifestyle - to their social epidemiologic alternatives: sociopolitical, psychosocial, and ecosocial theory of disease distribution. A central argument is that explicit use of -- and debates over -- epidemiologic theories of disease distribution will improve the rigor of the science and its ability to advance health justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197695562
• Artikelnr.: 72257544

Autorenporträt

Nancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology, American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. An internationally recognized social epidemiologist (PhD, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley, 1989) and ISI highly cited scientist, her background includes biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health, plus 35+ years of health justice activism. Dr. Krieger's work on health inequities encompasses: (1) conceptual frameworks, including her ecosocial theory of disease distribution, focused on embodiment and equity; (2) etiologic research; and (3) monitoring and methodologic research.

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