hi Jean!
 
Thanks for the tip regarding the film.
 
TVicente's book with yours truly just came out so I sne tit to the SDOH list see below...could you send itto the other lists (EQUIDAD-PAHO, Spirit 1848 and those from the UK?)
 
Thanks a lot in advance
 
Carles

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	From: Dennis Raphael [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
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	Subject: New Book: Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being:
	
	

	http://www.baywood.com/books/previewbook.asp?id=0-89503-279-1
	
	This new book is an extremely important compilation of papers that get
	directly to the root of what the social determinants of health are about.
	It can be seen as a companion piece to the earlier "The Political Economy
	of Social Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life",
	Edited by Vicente Navarro [
	http://www.baywood.com/books/previewbook.asp?id=0-89503-252-x ]
	
	Political and Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being:
	Controversies and Developments
	Edited by Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner
	Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series, Vicente Navarro, Series
	Editor
	
	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.
	
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