Epidemiology and the People's Health
Theory and Context
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 September 2013
- ISBN 9780199348428
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 155x231x27 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This concise, conceptually rich, and accessible book is a rallying cry for a return to the study and discussion of epidemiologic theory: what it is, why it matters, how it has changed over time, and its implications for improving population health and promoting health equity.
MoreLong description:
Epidemiology is often referred to as the science of public health. However, unlike other major sciences, its theoretical foundations are rarely articulated. While the idea of epidemiologic theory may seem dry and arcane, it is at its core about explaining the people's health. It is about life and death. It is about biology and society. It is about ecology and the economy. It is about how myriad aspects of people's lives--involving work, dignity, desire, love, play, conflict, discrimination, and injustice--become literally incorporated into our bodies and manifest in our health status, individually and collectively. And it is about essential knowledge critical for improving the people's health and minimizing inequitable burdens of disease, disability, and death.
Woven from a vast array of schools of thought, including those in the natural, social, and biomedical sciences, epidemiologic theory is a rich tapestry whose time for analysis is long overdue. By tracing its history and contours from ancient societies on through the development of--and debates within--contemporary epidemiology worldwide, Dr. Krieger shows how epidemiologic theory has long shaped epidemiologic practice, knowledge, and the politics of public health. Outlining an ecosocial theory of disease distribution that situates both population health and epidemiologic theory in societal and ecologic context, she offers a more holistic picture of how we embody the human experience.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Does Epidemiologic Theory Exist? On Science. Data, and Explaining
Disease Distribution
Chapter 2: Health in the Balance: Early Theories About Patterns of
Disease Occurrence
Chapter 3: Epidemiology Emerges: Early Theories and Debating Determinants of
Disease Distribution-Poison. Filth, Class, & Race ( 1600-1900)
Chapter 4: Epidemiology Expands: Germs, Genes. and the (Social)
Environment ( 1900-1950)
Chapter 5: Contemporary Mainstream Epidemiologic Theory:
Biomedical and Lifestyle
Chapter 6: Social Epidemiologic Alternatives: Sociopolitical
and Psychosocial Frameworks
Chapter 7: Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution: Embodying
Societal & Ecologic Context
Chapter 8: Epidemiologic Theory Counts: Harm, Knowledge,
Action, and the People's Health
