Understanding the nuances of how the public perceives health disparities is important for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle as they shape their strategies on health care reform…
Study from Michigan State University on how political ideology shapes public perceptions of health disparities.
First read about it on CitizenCompass Blog
…a socially constructed reality presupposes a reality independent of all social constructions, because there has to be something for the construction to be constructed out of. To construct money, property, and language, for example, there have to be the raw materials of bits of metal, paper, land, sounds, and marks, for example. And the raw materials cannot in turn be socially constructed without presupposing in turn some even rawer materials out of which they are constructed, until eventually we reach a bedrock of brute physical phenomena independent of all representations. The ontological subjectivity of the socially constructed reality requires an ontologically objective reality out of which it is constructed.
Investigates social determinants of population distributions of health, disease, and wellbeing, rather than treating such determinants as mere background to biomedical phenomena. (via A Glossary for Social Epidemiology)
Here are some links:
Introduction to Social Epidemiology via WHO
University of Michigan Center for Social Epidemiology
http://www.publichealthactivism.com/
Social epidemiology: social determinants of health in the United States: are we losing ground? via Pub Med
Nancy Krieger, Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Does anyone have any other social epidemiology links to share?
A 7 part documentary by the California News Reel. The full video is not available online, but it sometimes airs on PBS so check your local listings. Also, check the library at a university or college near you.
Part 1: In Sickness and in Wealth
Adam Drewnowski, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, has spent his career showing that Americans’ food choices correlate to social class. He argues that the most nutritious diet—lots of fruits and vegetables, lean meats, fish, and grains—is beyond the reach of the poorest Americans, and it is economic elitism for nutritionists to uphold it as an ideal without broadly addressing issues of affordability. Lower-income families don’t subsist on junk food and fast food because they lack nutritional education, as some have argued.
What Food Says About Class In America - Newsweek
Nice argument for personal responsibility vs social determinants of health.
Healthy People 2010’s model of the social determinants by Josh Freeman of the Medicine and Social Justice Blog.
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