Persuing Health and Wellness
Healthy Societies, Healthy People, 1e
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 5 May 2011
- ISBN 9780195430677
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 228x178x21 mm
- Weight 664 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 Tables; 24 figures; 26 photos 0
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Short description:
Despite a culture pervaded by the language of health (e.g., buzz phrases like healthy living, healthy eating, healthy environments), there are many mysteries surrounding the pursuit of health and wellness. In applying the sociological imagination, Pursuing Health and Wellness: Healthy Societies, Healthy People unravels these mysteries and, in an approach consistent with a shift in health sociology itself, goes beyond an examination of health as simply the absence of
disease to explore the many factors that shape health and wellness.
Long description:
Despite a culture pervaded by the language of health (e.g., buzz phrases like healthy living, healthy eating, healthy environments), there are many mysteries surrounding the pursuit of health and wellness. Health is often a very personal matter, protected by privacy law. Health is distributed unequally in society, as are the conditions necessary for wellness. Health is increasingly medicalized, with the goal of making people healthy lost in anxiety over the threat of
illness and the need for treatments, both biomedical and alternative.
In applying the sociological imagination, Pursuing Health and Wellness: Healthy Societies, Healthy People unravels these mysteries and, in an approach consistent with a shift in health sociology itself, goes beyond an examination of health as simply the absence of disease to explore the many factors that shape health and wellness. Authors Alexander Segall and Christopher Fries have constructed a three-pronged approach to this study. Part One of the text establishes the sociological foundations
of the discipline and looks at health as a social construct. Part Two goes on to look at the social determinants of health and critically analyzes the structural and behavioural factors that influence it. Part Three examines the informal and formal components of the health-care system as well as
models for measuring health, all the while considering personal, professional, and public responsibilities in the pursuit of health and wellness.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part 1
Understanding Health and Wellness Sociologically
Chapter 1
Introducing Health Sociology
Chapter 2
Applying the Sociological Imagination to Health, Illness, and the Body
Chapter 3
Measuring the Dimensions of Health
Part 2
Exploring the Factors that Shape Health and Wellness
Chapter 4
Making People Healthy: General Determinants of Health and Wellness
Chapter 5
Addressing Sources of Inequality and Health Disparities: Social Class
Chapter 6
Addressing Sources of Inequality and Health Disparities: Gender
Chapter 7
Addressing Sources of Inequality and Health Disparities: Ethnicity and the Life Course
Chapter 8
Unravelling the Mystery of Health: An Intersectional Model
Part 3
Pursuing Health and Wellness
Chapter 9
Discovering the Hidden Depths of Health Care: Lay Beliefs, Social Support, and Informal Care
Chapter 10
Medicalizing Beings and Bodies: The Link between Population Health and Biomedical Care
Chapter 11
Moving Beyond Biomedicine: Medical Pluralism
Chapter 12
Achieving Healthy Futures
Glossary
References
Index
