The Anthropocenes: collisions with the social determinants of health

Elizabeth McGibbon

Chapter 28 in Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health, 2025, pp 385-402 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how the Anthropocene epoch forms a toxic synergy with increasing inequities in the social determinants of health (SDoH). The author begins with an overview of this new geological age, problematizing the term itself in the milieu of systemic oppressions and historical facts about the capitalist, imperialist substrates of the Anthropocene. The SDoH are then situated within anthropogenic damage of the Anthropocenes, focussing on their devastating collisions with quality of life and well-being - the SDoH. The author then situates this often-overwhelming evidence within the Capitalocene and contemporary structural pathogens. Although neoliberal globalization (capitalism) is the origin of the current earth systems (including human health) emergency, it is also the action-point for contemporary targeted intervention. Finally, the author explores some prominent pathways to move beyond “winner-take-all” capitalism towards alternative approaches and economies that are purpose-made to lessen and halt inequities in the SDoH from the ground up.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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