Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective by Maio, Fernando de

Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780230304383)

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Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective by Maio, Fernando de

Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective

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Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective by Maio, Fernando de

Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pharmaceutical developments, access to already-existing medicines is hindered by economic and political barriers for poor people around the world.

Critical but accessible, Global Health Inequities questions taken-for-granted assumptions, showing how breakthroughs in biomedicine alone cannot address inequities in health. The book's analysis of theory and empirical work elucidates key debates and highlights the most significant challenges facing global health today, including the growing burden of chronic non-communicable diseases and the persistent injustice of neglected tropical diseases.

Fernando De Maio identifies the need for sociological analysis in global health, drawing together research from public health, sociology, anthropology and related fields, in order to expand the scope of the medical gaze towards a more holistic and structural perspective of health inequity.

Author: Fernando de Maio
ISBN-10: 0230304389
ISBN-13: 9780230304383
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2014
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d
By Fernando de Maio
By Fernando de Maio
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Fernando De Maio is Associate Professor in Sociology at DePaul University, USA. He has widely researched and published in the field of health inequities, particularly in Latin America. He is author of Health and Social Theory, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Fernando De Maio is Associate Professor in Sociology at DePaul University, USA. He has widely researched and published in the field of health inequities, particularly in Latin America. He is author of Health and Social Theory, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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