The Social Determinants of Health av Kathryn Strother Ratcliff

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<p>This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world ¿ and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system ¿ is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the "upstream" imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment. Each chapter explains how the policies, politics, and power behind corporate and governmental decisions and actions produce unhealthy circumstances of living ¿ such as poverty, pollution, dangerous working conditions, and unhealthy modes of food production ¿ and demonstrates that putting profit and politics over people is unhealthy and unsustainable. </p> While the book examines how these unhealthy conditions of life generate significant class and ethnic health disparities, the focus is on everyone''s health. Arguing that none of us should be placed in health-threatening situations that could have been prevented, Ra