The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being

by Edited by Richard Eckersley , Jane Dixon , Bob Douglas

• ISBN13: 9780521890212
• ISBN10: 0521890217
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book covers the differential health impacts of family and early development, changes in work and work conditions, health systems, the physical environment of cities, indigenous peoples, rural populations, social capital, culture, and global economic and environmental changes. It contains material that explains how inequality gets "under the skin", through describing the physiological changes caused by stress and behavior. Particularly important is the "natural experiment"--representing the different political and economic paths taken by Australia and New Zealand over the past two decades, and the opportunity it provides to assess its impact on health.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vii
Preface	x
Acknowledgements	xv
Notes on Contributors	xvi
Part A Historical, global and cultural perspectives	1	(70)
Healthier progress: historical perspectives on the social and economic determinants of health	3	(22)
John Powles
Health inequalities in the New World Order	25	(9)
David Legge
Globalisation and environmental change: implications for health and health inequalities	34	(17)
Colin D. Butler
Bob Douglas
A.J. McMichael
Culture, health and well being	51	(20)
Richard Eckersley
Part B Explaining health inequalities	71	(86)
A general model of the social origins of health and well being	73	(10)
Jake M. Najman
Income inequality and health: in search of fundamental causes	83	(22)
Gavin Turrell
Mediation of the effects of social and economic status on health and mortality: the roles of behaviour and constitution	105	(9)
Richard Taylor
Migrants, money and margarine: possible explanations for Australia New Zealand mortality differences	114	(15)
Alistair Woodward
Colin Mathers
Martin Tobias
Income, income inequality and health in New Zealand	129	(20)
Philippa Howden Chapman
Des O'Dea
Equity in access to health care	149	(8)
Stephen Duckett
Part C Social organisation and health	157	(48)
Human settlements: health and the physical environment	159	(19)
Peter Newman
Work and health: the impact of structural workforce changes and the work environment	178	(11)
Anne Marie Feyer
Dorothy Broom
Health, inequities, community and social capital	189	(16)
Robert Bush
Fran Baum
Part D Developmental and biological perspectives	205	(40)
Health inequalities: the seeds are sown in childhood, what about the remedies	207	(9)
Graham Vimpani
Family, early development and the life course: common risk and protective factors in pathways to prevention	216	(9)
Judy Cashmore
Health inequalities: is the foundation for these laid before the time of birth?	225	(6)
Terry Dwyer
Ruth Morley
Leigh Blizzard
How social factors affect health: neuroendocrine interactions	231	(14)
Kerin O'Dea
Mark Daniel
Part E Implications for policy, interventions and health research	245	(52)
Aboriginal health, policy and modelling in social epidemiology	247	(12)
Ian Anderson
Does our limited analysis of the dimensions of poverty limit the way we seek solutions?	259	(10)
Elizabeth Harris
Don Nutbeam
Peter Sainsbury
Developmental prevention in a disadvantaged community	269	(11)
Ross Homel
Gordon Elias
Ian Hay
Rethinking evaluation for policy action on the social origins of health and well being	280	(17)
Beverly Sibthorpe
Jane Dixon
Bibliography	297	(45)
Index	342