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Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being: Controversies and Developments

 

Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner Editors, Baywood Publishers

 

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Introduction: Toward an Integrated Political, Economic, and Cultural Understanding of Health Inequalities Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner

PART I Social Policy
Development and Quality of Life: A Critique of Amartya Sen's Development As Freedom Vicente Navarro
Gender Equity and the Population Problem Amartya Sen
Inequality in the Social Consequences of Illness: How Well Do People with Long-Term Illness Fare in the British and Swedish Labor Markets? Bo Burstriöm, Margaret Whitehead, Christina Lindholm, and Finn Diderichsen
Economic Growth, Inequality, and the Economic Position of the Poor in 1985-1995: An International Perspective Olli Kangas
Cross-National Income Inequality: How Great Is It and What Can We Learn from It? Timothy M. Smeeding and Peter Gottschalk
Inequality as a Basis for the U.S. Emergence from the Great Stagnation Robert Chernomas

PART II Globalization
The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: Its Consequences for Economic and Social Well-Being Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Egor Kraev, and Judy Chen
The Widening Gap in Death Rates among Income Groups in the United States from 1967 to 1986 Lisa Miller Schalick, Wilbur C. Hadden, Elsie Pamuk, Vicente Navarro, and Gregory Pappas
Dependent Convergence: The Importation of Technological Hazards by Semiperipheral Countries Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Charles Levenstein
How the United States Exports Managed Care to Developing Countries Howard Waitzkin and Celia Iriart

PART III Health Policy
The New Conventional Wisdom: An Evaluation of the WHO Report Health Systems: Improving Performance Yvonne Wells and David de Vaus
Cost Containment and the Backdraft of Competition Policies Donald W. Light
Upstream Healthy Public Policy: Lessons from the Battle of Tobacco John B. McKinlay and Lisa D. Marceau

PART IV Health Care
Phases of Capitalism, Welfare States, Medical Dominance, and Health Care in Ontario David Coburn
Does Investor-Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care? Charlene Harrington, Steffie Woolhandler, Joseph Mullan, Hellen Carrillo, and David U. Himmelstein
Hospital Ownership and Preventable Adverse Events Eric J. Thomas, E. John Orav, and Troyen A. Brennan
Social Inequalities in Perceived Health and the Use of Health Services in a Southern European Urban Area Carme Borrell, Izabella Rohlfs, Josep Ferrando, Isabel Pasarín, Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón, and Antoni Plasència

PART V Occupational Health and Labor Unions
Health Care Worker's Unions and Health Insurance: The 1199 Story Howard S. Berliner, Geoffrey Gibson, and Cyprian Devine-Perez
Role of Trade Unions in Workplace Health Promotion Mauri Johansson and Timo Partanen
One-Eyed Science: Scientists, Workplace Reproductive Hazards, and the Right to Work Karen Messing
Labor, Social, and Human Rights A Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Service Sector Workers
B Case Studies of Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association: Manufacturing Workers Human Rights Watch

PART VI Social Capital versus Class, Gender, and Race
A Critique of Social Capital Vicente Navarro
Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries Carles Muntaner, John W. Lynch, Marianne Hillemeier, Ju Hee Lee, Richard David, Joan Benach, and Carme Borrell
Social Capital, Disorganized Communities, and the Third Way: Understanding the Retreat from Structural Inequalities in Epidemiology and Public Health Carles Muntaner, John Lynch, and George Davey Smith
Community Health Centers and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Healthy Life Leiyu Shi, Jerrilynn Regan, Robert M. Politzer, and Jue Luo
Gender, Race, Class, and Aging: Advances and Opportunities Paula Dressel, Meredith Minkler, and Irene Yen 

PART VII Ideology, Theory, and Research Policy
People and Places: Contrasting Perspectives on the Association between Social Class and Health George A. Kaplan
A Debate on Race, Racism, Health, and Epidemiology A Race in Epidemiology Paul D. Stolley
B Refiguring "Race": Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations Nancy Krieger
C On the Study of Race, Racism, and Health: A Shift from Description to Explanation Thomas A. LaVeist
D Reply to Commentaries by Drs. Krieger and LaVeist on "Race in Epidemiology" Paul D. Stolley
Anti-Egalitarianism, Legitimizing Myths, Racism, and "Neo-McCarthyism" in Social Epidemiology and Public Health: A Review of Sally Satel's PC, MD Carles Muntaner and Marisela B. Gomez
Whose Epidemiology, Whose Health? Steve Wing
Conclusion: Political and Economic Determinants of Class, Gender, and Race Inequalities in Health-An Agenda for the 21st Century Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner

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IN PRAISE OF
"Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being is a superb compendium of research and debate on a question of fundamental importance—the relationship between social inequality and human well-being. It should convince all serious scholars that the study of class, race, gender, and other forms of inequality should be at the center of the agenda of public health research in the 21st century."
—Erik Olin Wright, Vilas Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin

"This remarkable collection explores, from many perspectives, some of the most crucial problems of social policy of the coming years, not least in the United States. These penetrating essays range from theoretical and analytic dissection of fundamental moral, political, and economic issues to close investigation of a wide variety of critically important cases. For those concerned about what lies ahead—and what we can and should do about it—the collection is not only valuable but indispensable."
—Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus, MIT

"It was fascinating for me to go through this mine of information, analysis, and interpretation; to find a rigorous academic documentation interlaced with rejections of injustice; to understand how often the health effects of class, gender, race, and social background are concealed; to see the extent to which conservative assumptions are contradicted by strong evidence; to verify the positive health effects of the work of labor unions; to see how many groups defend health as a public good; and to gain so many ideas and insights for research and for action.

Last year, the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO declared: ‘Health has a double moral value, because it is essential for the quality of life and for life itself, and is instrumental as a condition for freedom. The inequality between rich and poor—at the level of individuals, communities, and nations—is increasingly deeply felt in the area of health and healthcare, thereby contributing to the desperation and injustice that prevail and continue to increase in other h ealth-related fields such as food, income, and education.’ This book provides the best analysis of these conditions, the broadest description of the realities in the United States and worldwide, and the stimulus for further research and action."
—Giovanni Berlinguer, University of Rome, Italy

ABOUT THE BOOK
The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro’s edited collection The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the ever-growing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. The approach of this book is distinctly multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary: the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, medicine, and history are all represented here. 

Part I, on social policy, includes Navarro’s critique of Sen’s influential Development As Freedom, Sen’s own analysis of gender and development, a comparison of the consequences of Swedish and British labor market policies, and several analyses of the evolution of international economic inequalities. Part II centers on the contested concept of globalization, with an international empirical analysis of its consequences for global well-being over the last two decades, a description of growing health inequalities by income in the United States since the 1960s, and an account of the expansion of managed care in semiperipheral countries. Part III, on health policy, presents a critique of a controversial 2000 WHO report and two analyses of contemporary U.S. health policy. Part IV, on health care, provides international empirical evidence on the negative effects of privatization, in particular in hospitals, nursing homes, and health services utilization. Part V focuses on occupational health and labor unions, including the crucial role of unions in protecting worker’s safety and health. One chapter tells the story of New York’s legendary SEIU 1199; another addresses the neglected area of women’s occupational health; another provides dramatic case studies on violations of workers’ freedom of association and their consequences. Part VI, on social capital versus class, gender, and race, deals with one of the most heated theoretical and empirical debates in contemporary social epidemiology. Most of the contributors provide arguments and data that challenge communitarian approaches to health disparities, focusing instead on political factors, welfare state provisions, and class, race, and gender inequalities as major sources of inequalities in health. Finally, Part VII addresses the role of ideology, theory, and research policy in the production and maintenance of social inequalities in health. Ideology is not usually seen as a social determinant of population health, but the contributors here show the role of ideology in shaping scientific views about race and health disparities, as well as the implicit understanding of determinants of health and disease. The final chapter presents a critical overview of recent ideological attempts at discrediting empirical research on health disparities and social epidemiology.

INTENDED AUDIENCE
Public health scholars and practitioners, social epidemiologists, social scientists interested in health issues including sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians, economists, and health psychologists. 

ABOUT THE EDITORS
Carles Muntaner MD, PhD is a professor of behavioral and Community Health Nursing and Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland-Baltimore. His research focuses on the explanation of social inequalities in health in particular on the effects of class, race, ethic and gender structures on mental health. He also studies the effects of work organization on mental health among low-income and contingent workers, in particular nurse assistants and home care workers.

Vicente Navarro is professor of health and public policy, sociology, and policy studies at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and professor of political and social sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. A founder and past president of the International Association of Health Policy and founder and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Health Services, he has written extensively on health and public policy themes.
Dr. Navarro is the author of fifteen books translated into several languages and of many articles on these themes. His latest books are The Politics of Health Policy (Blackwell) and Neoliberalismo y Estado del Bienestar, Globalizacion Economica Poder Politico y Estado del Bienestar (Ariel Sociedad Economica).

INTENDED AUDIENCE
Public health scholars and practitioners, social epidemiologists, social scientists interested in health issues including sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians, economists, and health psychologists.

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