Primarily intended for DNP and PhD students in nursing and health care who are expected to design research to identify health-related problems and solutions, this book focuses on the concepts, theories and processes of how social determinants affect the health of populations. Using specific social determinants as an organizing framework, it presents ample scientific evidence from health and social disciplines of the universal processes that produce the social patterning of health inequities.
Foreword.- Preface.- UNIT I: Nature of Social Determinants of Health.- Social Determinants of Population Health.- Built Environment and Health.- Epigenetics.- Poverty, Discrimination and Health.- Disempowerment and Migrant populations.- Globalization and Health.- UNIT II: Research and Population Health.- Social Epidemiology.- Program Evaluation.- UNIT III: Approaches for Health Equity.- Building Neighborhood Social Capital.- Framework for Practices toward Health Equity.- Putting it all together.