Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health

Edited by Toba Bryant

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This prescient Handbook brings together expert scholars on the social determinants of health, to examine the living and working conditions that impact the wellbeing of populations across the globe. It provides detailed analyses of international case studies, examining how factors such as class, race, gender, and disability can affect personal experiences.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035302086
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health , pp 2-11

Toba Bryant

Ch 2 Historical perspectives , pp 13-26

Stella Medvedyuk and Dennis Raphael

Ch 3 Conceptualizing the social determinants of health: the value of a global political economy of health perspective , pp 27-34

Courtney McNamara

Ch 4 Pathways to health and illness , pp 35-48

Stephen Bezruchka

Ch 5 COVID as a political economy event: pandemic and syndemic1 , pp 50-64

Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson

Ch 6 The level and distribution of income and wealth , pp 66-81

Gerry McCartney

Ch 7 Employment, health, and the laws of accumulation , pp 82-92

Scott Aquanno and Toba Bryant

Ch 8 Early life and the social determinants of health , pp 93-111

Stephen Bezruchka

Ch 9 Food security , pp 112-126

Zsofia Mendly-Zambo

Ch 10 Housing (un)affordability, (in)security and (in)justice as social determinants of health , pp 127-140

Nicola Livingstone

Ch 11 Providing public income support may advance public health: recent federal policy developments in Canada’s social safety net , pp 141-152

Michael J. Prince

Ch 12 Huronia’s lessons: how ableist violence determines health , pp 154-165

Jen Rinaldi

Ch 13 Classism and health inequities: what the body remembers , pp 166-189

Elizabeth McGibbon

Ch 14 The political economy of racialized health inequities: a panoramic view , pp 190-203

Arnel M. Borras

Ch 15 Intersectional and embodied: migration as a social determinant of health , pp 204-219

Denise L. Spitzer

Ch 16 Metropolitan health in a neoliberalizing world , pp 220-234

Ted Schrecker

Ch 17 Colonialism and Indigenous peoples , pp 235-247

Darrel Manitowabi

Ch 18 Decolonizing social determinants of health? South American perspectives and future challenges , pp 248-259

Cristian Montenegro and Felipe Szabzon

Ch 19 An overview of social determinants of health in Africa , pp 261-277

Morris D. C. Komakech

Ch 20 The social determinants of superbugs: antimicrobial resistance in South Asia , pp 278-292

Katia S. Mohindra, Fariha Haseen and Madison Adams

Ch 21 Social determinants of health in Continental Europe and the relevance of migration , pp 293-305

Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Ina Teresa Wilczewska

Ch 22 The establishment of a market model of healthcare in Chile: 1973–1990 , pp 306-315

Jaime Llambías-Wolff

Ch 23 Policies to address the social determinants of health: a Nordic perspective , pp 316-327

Elisabeth Fosse

Ch 24 Social and commercial determinants of health and health equity in Australia , pp 328-339

Fran Baum and Toby Freeman

Ch 25 Economic globalization , pp 341-356

Ted Schrecker

Ch 26 Austerity, neoliberalism and population health , pp 357-370

Gerry McCartney

Ch 27 Crisis of capitalism: social welfare states or socialist states as the way forward? , pp 371-384

Dennis Raphael and Toba Bryant

Ch 28 The Anthropocenes: collisions with the social determinants of health , pp 385-402

Elizabeth McGibbon

Ch 29 The promise of left politics , pp 404-414

Dennis Pilon

Ch 30 Morbid symptoms: edging towards the end of the neoliberal age , pp 415-425

Simon Winlow

Ch 31 Challenging power and structural inequality through intersectional movement building , pp 426-436

Shauna MacKinnon

Ch 32 Conclusion: prospects for political and social transformation , pp 438-442

Toba Bryant

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