Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Thei...

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the Nor...

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing...

That morning I woke up to a new message on Insta, from my boyfriend Ben. By this point Ben had been dead for two years. Definitely a new message. T...

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in ups...

Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic Americas opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite inte...

This book brings together established and emerging scholars (including graduate students) from multiple disciplines (primarily law and social scien...

This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows th...

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In ...

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

This book tackles complex global issues like vaccination, climate change, environmental ethics, embryo adoption, and surrogate motherhood viewed fr...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book a...

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are expe...

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on womens lived experiences amid the pandemic, ...

This book examines the state of child health and well-being in India. It traces the roots of child health inequalities in India; draws on the lates...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives. Because o...

The growing number of networks delivering healthcare, and professionals learning together to improve care, has created a need for new kinds of mana...

Dieses Buch widmet sich einem drängenden gesellschaftlichen Problem: dem fehlenden Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung für Menschen ohne Krankenversic...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

The climate crisis, inequality, poverty, disease, hunger, food waste, and loss of biodiversity are all part of an extensive list of global challeng...

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfass...

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world. ...

When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly ...

When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly ...

Life expectancy is about more than just health its about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improv...

Life expectancy is about more than just health its about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improv...

Authoritarian Absorption portrays the rebuilding of China's pandemic response system through its anti-HIV/AIDS battle from 1978 to 2018. Going beyo...

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare stat...

An essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how w...