1st Edition

Political And Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being: Controversies and Developments

Edited By Vincente Navarro, Caries Muntaner Copyright 2004

    The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the evergrowing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. The approach of this book is distinctly multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary: the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, medicine, and history are all represented here.

    Introduction: Toward an Integrated Political, Economic, and Cultural Understanding of Health Inequalities Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner

    PART I Social Policy
     Development and Quality of Life: A Critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom Vicente Navarro
     Gender Equity and the Population Problem Amartya Sen
     Inequality in the Social Consequences of Illness: How Well Do People with Long-Term Illness Fare in the British and Swedish Labor Markets? Bo Burstriöm, Margaret Whitehead, Christina Lindholm, and Finn Diderichsen
     Economic Growth, Inequality, and the Economic Position of the Poor in 1985-1995: An International Perspective Olli Kangas
     Cross-National Income Inequality: How Great Is It and What Can We Learn from It? Timothy M. Smeeding and Peter Gottschalk
     Inequality as a Basis for the U.S. Emergence from the Great Stagnation Robert Chernomas

    PART II Globalization
     The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Its Consequences for Economic and Social Well-Being Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Egor Kraev, and Judy Chen
     The Widening Gap in Death Rates among Income Groups in the United States from 1967 to 1986 Lisa Miller Schalick, Wilbur C. Hadden, Elsie Pamuk, Vicente Navarro, and Gregory Pappas
     Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Charles Levenstein
     How the United States Exports Managed Care to Developing Countries Howard Waitzkin and Celia Iriart

    PART III Health Policy
     The New Conventional Wisdom: An Evaluation of the WHO Report Health Systems: Improving Performance Yvonne Wells and David de Vaus
     Cost Containment and the Backdraft of Competition Policies Donald W. Light
     Upstream Healthy Public Policy: Lessons from the Battle of Tobacco John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau

    PART IV Health Care
     Phases of Capitalism, Welfare States, Medical Dominance, and Health Care in Ontario David Coburn
     Does Investor-Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care? Charlene Harrington, Steffie Woolhandler, Joseph Mullan, Hellen Carrillo, and David U. Himmelstein
     Hospital Ownership and Preventable Adverse Events Eric J. Thomas, E. John Orav, and Troyen A. Brennan
     Social Inequalities in Perceived Health and the Use of Health Services in a Southern European Urban Area Carme Borrell, Izabella Rohlfs, Josep Ferrando, Isabel Pasarín, Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, and Antoni Plasència

    PART V Occupational Health and Labor Unions
     Health Care Worker's Unions and Health Insurance: The 1199 Story Howard S. Berliner, Geoffrey Gibson, and Cyprian Devine-Perez
     Role of Trade Unions in Workplace Health Promotion Mauri Johansson and Timo Partanen
     One-Eyed Science: Scientists, Workplace Reproductive Hazards, and the Right to Work Karen Messing
     Labor, Social, and Human Rights A Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Service Sector Workers
     B Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Manufacturing Workers Human Rights Watch

    PART VI Social Capital versus Class, Gender, and Race
     A Critique of Social Capital Vicente Navarro
     Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries Carles Muntaner, John W. Lynch, Marianne Hillemeier, Ju Hee Lee, Richard David, Joan Benach, and Carme Borrell
     Social Capital, Disorganized Communities, and the Third Way: Understanding the Retreat from Structural Inequalities in Epidemiology and Public Health Carles Muntaner, John Lynch, and George Davey Smith
     Community Health Centers and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Healthy Life Leiyu Shi, Jerrilynn Regan, Robert M. Politzer, and Jue Luo
     Gender, Race, Class, and Aging: Advances and Opportunities Paula Dressel, Meredith Minkler, and Irene Yen

    PART VII Ideology, Theory, and Research Policy
     People and Places: Contrasting Perspectives on the Association between Social Class and Health George A. Kaplan
     A Debate on Race, Racism, Health, and Epidemiology A Race in Epidemiology Paul D. Stolley
     B Refiguring "Race": Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations Nancy Krieger
     C On the Study of Race, Racism, and Health: A Shift from Description to Explanation Thomas A. LaVeist
     D Reply to Commentaries by Drs. Krieger and LaVeist on "Race in Epidemiology" Paul D. Stolley
     Anti-Egalitarianism, Legitimizing Myths, Racism, and "Neo-McCarthyism" in Social Epidemiology and Public Health: A Review of Sally Satel's PC, MD Carles Muntaner and Marisela B. Gomez
     Whose Epidemiology, Whose Health? Steve Wing
     Conclusion: Political and Economic Determinants of Class, Gender, and Race Inequalities in Health-An Agenda for the 21st Century Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner

     Index 

     

     

    Biography

    Vincente Navarro (Author) ,  Carles Muntaner (Author)