Political sociology and the people's health / Jason Beckfield.

Political sociology and the people's health / Jason Beckfield.

9780190492502 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

RA418

362.1

In a stirring synthesis, 'Political Sociology and the People's Health' advances the debate over social inequalities in health by offering a new set of provocative hypotheses around how health is distributed in and across populations. It joins political sociology's macroscopic insights into social policy, labour markets, and the racialized and gendered state with social epidemiology's conceptualizations and measurements of populations, etiologic periods, and distributions. The result is a major leap forward in how we understand the relationships between institutions and inequalities - and essential reading for those in public health, sociology, and beyond.

In a stirring synthesis, 'Political Sociology and the People's Health' advances the debate over social inequalities in health by offering a new set of provocative hypotheses around how health is distributed in and across populations. It joins political sociology's macroscopic insights into social policy, labour markets, and the racialized and gendered state with social epidemiology's conceptualizations and measurements of populations, etiologic periods, and distributions. The result is a major leap forward in how we understand the relationships between institutions and inequalities - and essential reading for those in public health, sociology, and beyond.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Small book, big ideas in population health.

Print version: 9780190492472