Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being

by Navarro, Vicente; Muntaner, Carles

• ISBN13: 9780895032782
• ISBN10: 0895032783
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Baywood Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Toward an Integrated Political, Economic, and Cultural Understanding of Health Inequalities	p. 1
Social Policy	p. 7
Development and Quality of Life: A Critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom	p. 13
Gender Equity and the Population Problem	p. 27
Inequality in the Social Consequences of Illness: How Well Do People with Long-Term Illness Fare in the British and Swedish Labor Markets?	p. 35
Economic Growth, Inequality, and the Economic Position of the Poor in 1985-1995: An International Perspective	p. 51
Cross-National Income Inequality: How Great Is It and What Can We Learn from It?	p. 65
Inequality as a Basis for the U.S. Emergence from the Great Stagnation	p. 75
Globalization	p. 87
The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Its Consequences for Economic and Social Well-Being	p. 91
The Widening Gap in Death Rates among Income Groups in the United States from 1967 to 1986	p. 115
Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries	p. 129
How the United States Exports Managed Care to Developing Countries	p. 147
Health Policy	p. 159
The New Conventional Wisdom: An Evaluation of the WHO Report Health Systems: Improving Performance	p. 163
Cost Containment and the Backdraft of Competition Policies	p. 173
Upstream Healthy Public Policy: Lessons from the Battle of Tobacco	p. 201
Health Care	p. 221
Phases of Capitalism, Welfare States, Medical Dominance, and Health Care in Ontario	p. 225
Does Investor-Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care?	p. 245
Hospital Ownership and Preventable Adverse Events	p. 257
Social Inequalities in Perceived Health and the Use of Health Services in a Southern European Urban Area	p. 273
Occupational Health and Labor Unions	p. 295
Health Care Workers' Unions and Health Insurance: The 1199 Story	p. 299
Role of Trade Unions in Workplace Health Promotion	p. 309
One-Eyed Science: Scientists, Workplace Reproductive Hazards, and the Right to Work	p. 325
Labor, Social, and Human Rights
Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Service Sector Workers	p. 345
Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Manufacturing Workers	p. 365
Social Capital versus Class, Gender, and Race	p. 385
A Critique of Social Capital	p. 389
Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries	p. 399
Social Capital, Disorganized Communities, and the Third Way: Understanding the Retreat from Structural Inequalities in Epidemiology and Public Health	p. 427
Community Health Centers and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Healthy Life	p. 451
Gender, Race, Class, and Aging: Advances and Opportunities	p. 467
Ideology, Theory, and Research Policy	p. 489
People and Places: Contrasting Perspectives on the Association between Social Class and Health	p. 495
A Debate on Race, Racism, Health, and Epidemiology
Race in Epidemiology	p. 509
Refiguring "Race": Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations	p. 513
On the Study of Race, Racism, and Health: A Shift from Description to Explanation	p. 518
Reply to Commentaries by Drs. Krieger and LaVeist on "Race in Epidemiology"	p. 520
Anti-Egalitarianism, Legitimizing Myths, Racism, and "Neo-McCarthyism" in Social Epidemiology and Public Health: A Review of Sally Satel's PC, M.D.	p. 523
Whose Epidemiology, Whose Health?	p. 539
Conclusion: Political, Economic, and Cultural Determinants of Population Health--A Research Agenda	p. 551
Index	p. 557
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