Understanding Health, Illness and Society
A Patient-Centred Approach to Healthcare
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032677545
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 310 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 Illustrations, black & white; 18 Line drawings, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white 684
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Short description:
This accessible book shows how social structures and social norms shape both individual and collective health. It provides readers with an insightful understanding of the relationship between society, health and illness, and highlights issues to inform a progressive, patient-centred approach to contemporary healthcare.
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This accessible book shows how social structures and social norms shape both individual and collective health. It provides readers with an insightful understanding of the relationship between society, health and illness and highlights issues to inform a progressive, patient-centred approach to contemporary healthcare.
The book begins by discussing how health has been defined and understood over the last century before examining how social issues such as deprivation, class, employment, housing, gender, ethnicity and policy shape health and contribute to health inequities. The book then discusses public health initiatives such as health promotion and screening programmes, the impact of resource allocation and the role that politics and policy play in supporting a healthy society. To bring concepts to life, the book uses case studies from the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
Guided by the fundamental principle that everything in a society has some effect or impact upon its health, and assuming no prior knowledge of the social sciences, this is the ideal book for healthcare students across nursing, medicine, midwifery and pharmacy, as well as anyone interested in the relationship between health and society.
"Perhaps you thought that ill-health was ?simply? the result of lack of access to health care or failure to take personal responsibility. Read this book to find out why ill-health is closely related to the social environment and the public policies that shape it. As the book lays out so clearly, improvement in health and reduction in health inequalities is dependent on this understanding."
MoreTable of Contents:
1 Introduction: what is health? 2 The social context of health: the social and structural determinants of health. 3 How people understand their health. 4 Health-related behaviours. 5 Promoting health and wellbeing. 6 Politics and health. 7 Sustainable healthcare: future-proofing the health of Britain. 8 Conclusion. 9 Test yourself.
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