Care for major health problems and population health concerns : impacts on patients, providers and policy
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Care for major health problems and population health concerns : impacts on patients, providers and policy
(Research in the sociology of health care : a research annual, v. 26)
Emerald JAI, 2008
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume contains papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving provision of health care as related to major health problems or population health concerns. In the first chapter, the topic of population health is reviewed and examined, looking at relationships between social structure, including socioeconomic status, and health. A number of papers examine social, demographic and structural problems, and a wide variety of major health problems including chronic illnesses, mental illness, serious acute health problems, and disabilities that require health care. Some of the specific health problems covered include major chronic health problems such as coronary heart diseases and arthritis, as well as HIV/AIDs and other sexually transmitted diseases, obesity and how to deal with obesity, mental health concerns, poverty, homelessness and health care problems with a focus on urban contexts within the United States. The last two papers in the volume extend the focus to look at more international concerns. One paper focuses on urban slum prevalence as a key factor in shaping population level rates of social well being in developing countries, and another on medical tourism. This volume includes papers that focus on the perspectives of patients, providers, and also the relevant links with health policy.
Table of Contents
Population health concerns and major health problems: An introduction to the topic and the volume.
How and why the motivation and skill to self-manage coronary heart disease are socially unequal.
Functional ability and disability among older adults with arthritis: The impact of age, duration of arthritis, and severity of arthritis.
Weight loss surgery patients' negotiations of medicine's institutional logic.
From the patient's point of view: Practitioner interaction styles in the treatment of women with chronic STD.
"I'm Still Here": a 10 year follow-up of women's experiences living with HIV.
Physicians as advocates for their patients: Depression treatment in primary care.
Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans: results from the national Latino and Asian American study.
"Falling through the cracks": health care needs of the older homeless population and their implications.
The urbanization of poverty and urban slum prevalence: The impact of the built environment on population-level patterns of social well-being in the less developed countries.
Unsettled borders of care: medical tourism as a new dimension in america's health care crisis.
Research in the sociology of health care.
Care for major health problems and population health concerns: impacts on patients, providers and policy.
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