Health and Social Justice
Subtitle: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease (Public Health/Vulnerable Populations)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: November 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780787967338
Subjects: Medicine: General Issues; Social issues; Poverty; Health aspects; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Social medicine; Public Health; Health Risk Assessment; Medical / Public Health; Equality; Health; Social justice
First sentence: Even though mortality rates overall declined dramatically in the twentieth century and life expectancy increased, the United States nevertheless faces an increasing level of inequity in the health status and mortality of those with less material resources in relation to their social class, particularly in communities of color (Kawachi, Kennedy, and Wilkinson, 1999; Arno and Figueroa, 2000; LaVeist, 2002).