Social Injustice and Public Health
ISBN13: 9780195384062ISBN10: 0195384067
Paperback,
552 pages
Mar 2009,
In Stock
Price:
$36.99 (05)Description
Edited by past presidents of the American Public Health Association, with chapters written by 48 experts in various aspects of social injustice, this book addresses many aspects of social injustice and their relationship to public health. Major sections of the book focus on population groups affected by social injustice, areas of public health and medical care in which social injustice has an adverse impact, and approaches to the reduction and elimination of social injustice and its adverse effects on public health.Reviews
"...a useful contribution to a critical field of public health."--International Journal of Epidemiology
"...an invaluable primer on how inequity breeds ill health...It should be widely read by policymakers and practitioners looking for a passionate and scholarly review of societal changes that would avert enormous suffering."--New England Journal of Medicine
About the Author(s)
Barry Levy, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Sherborn, MA, and Victor Sidel, MD, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
