Social Determinants of Health : : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Inequality and Wellbeing / / ed. by Adrian Bonner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Bagnall, Anne-Marie,; Bambra, Clare,; Bonham, Claire,; Bonner, Adrian,; Brooks, Naomi,; Brown, Katherine,; Burstow, Paul,; Coles, Steve,; Critchlow, Nathan,; Fallaize, Rosalind,; Fortescue, Deborah,; Foster, Jon,; Garthwaite, Kayleigh,; Hamlet, Neil,; Hannah, Jean,; Hetherington, Katy,; Hewett, Nigel,; Kerr, Kirstin,; Lovegrove, Julie,; Luscombe, Claire,; Maguire, Nick,; McIntosh, Barbara,; Melican, Joyce,; Munro, Gayle,; Murphy, Amy Greer,; Oddy, Michael,; Parnham, Andrew,; Ramos, Sara da Silva,; Smith, Katherine,; Svanberg, Jenny,; West, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Bonner, Adrian,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 11 Black and White

This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets. A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Life chances
• The individual: growing into society
• Addressing inequalities in education: parallels with health
• Wholistic well-being and happiness: psychosocial-spiritual perspectives
• Nutrition in marginalised groups
• Lifestyle challenges
• Alcohol-related harm and health inequalities
• Addiction, inequality and recovery
• Health and exercise in the community
• Health and well-being in the digital society
• Social and community networks
• Building an inclusive community through social capital: the role of volunteering in reaching those on the edge of community
• Support for people with learning disabilities: promoting an inclusive community
• Community well-being programmes: reviewing ‘what works’
• Looking through a realist lens: services provided by faith-based and third sector organisations
• Employment and housing
• Social enterprise and the well-being of young people not in education, employment or training
• Health and homelessness
• Local authority perspectives on community planning and localism: a case study
• Supporting people at the edge of the community
• Towards an integrative theory of homelessness and rough sleeping
• Mental health and multiple exclusions
• Brain injury and social exclusion
• What works to improve the health of the multiply excluded?
• The socio-political environment
• Geopolitical aspects of health: austerity and health inequalities
• Health and well-being of refugees and migrants within a politically contested environment
• The Care Act 2014
• Health and social care in an age of austerity
• Conclusion
• Index