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Social Determinants of Health : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Inequality and Wellbeing

This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets. A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: BRISTOL : POLICY Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The individual: growing into society / Adrian Bonner
  • Addressing inequalities in education: parallels with health / Kirstin Kerr
  • Wholistic well-being and happiness: psychosocial-spiritual perspectives / Andrew Parnham
  • Nutrition in marginalised groups / Rosalind Fallaize and Julie Lovegrove
  • Alcohol-related harm and health inequalities / Katherine Smith, Jon Foster and Katherine Brown
  • Addiction, inequality and recovery / Jenny Svanberg
  • Health and exercise in the community / Naomi Brooks
  • Health and well-being in the digital society / Nathan Critchlow
  • Building an inclusive community through social capital: the role of volunteering in reaching those on the edge of community / Claire Bonham
  • Support for people with learning disabilities: promoting an inclusive community / Barbara McIntosh
  • Community well-being programmes: reviewing 'what works' / Anne-Marie Bagnall
  • Looking through a realist lens: services provided by faith-based and third sector organisations / Jean Hannah
  • Social enterprise and the well-being of young people not in education, employment or training / Steve Coles
  • Health and homelessness / Katy Hetherington and Neil Hamlet
  • Local authority perspectives on community planning and localism: a case study / Joyce Melican
  • Towards an integrative theory of homelessness and rough sleeping / Nick Maguire
  • Mental health and multiple exclusions / Claire Luscombe
  • Brain injury and social exclusion / Michael Oddy, Sara da Silva Ramos and Deborah Fortescue
  • What works to improve the health of the multiply excluded? / Nigel Hewett
  • Geopolitical aspects of health: austerity and health inequalities / Clare Bambra, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Amy Greer Murphy
  • Health and well-being of refugees and migrants within a politically contested environment / Gayle Munro
  • The Care Act 2014 / Paul Burstow
  • Health and social care in an age of austerity / Charles West.