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The Health of Populations

General Theories and Particular Realities

By: Stephen J. Kunitz

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The Health of Populations

General Theories and Particular Realities

By: Stephen J. Kunitz

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. The author brings an independent perspective to bear on the debate.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195308077

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The Health of Populations

General Theories and Particular Realities

By: Stephen J. Kunitz M.D.

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General Theories and Particular Realities

By: Stephen J. Kunitz M.D.

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While this area of research deals in complex problems, it is often dominated by those who deploy rather categorical, partisan positions, citing from a wide range of contradictory statistical studies. Stephen Kunitz brings a measured, balanced and independent perspective to bear on the debate, taking a step back from current arguments to look at the fundamental issues through a socio-historical lens. Part I describes how ideas about the costs and benefits of industrialization, and about the causes of disease, have been used by writers from different ideological persuasions to explain the health of populations. Part II focuses on some of the ideas that have been particularly influential in contemporary debates: factors such as standard of living, community and its loss, inequality, and globalization. The fact that these have been used to support differing explanations of the determinants of population health suggests that there are no easy generalizations in a field with so many discrepant findings. Scientists often ignore anomalous findings in the interests of advancing a particular paradigm, until the anomalies outweigh the norm and a new paradigm is created. This book argues that in considering social determinants of health, no meaningful over-arching explanations may be possible. Rather, it is by immersion in the reality of particular contexts - work settings, historical periods, geopolitical regions, and governmental credos - that we may gain a better understanding of the way in which social forces shape patterns of health and disease.

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0199748322

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Drinking, Conduct Disorder, and Social Change

Navajo Experiences

By: Stephen J. Kunitz,Jerrold E. Levy

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Drinking, Conduct Disorder, and Social Change

Navajo Experiences

By: Stephen J. Kunitz,Jerrold E. Levy

Based on interviews with more than a thousand Navajo Indian men and women, this book examines the associations between childhood experiences and behavior and the development of alcohol dependence in adulthood. Because Navajo life has changed markedly over the past two generations, it also examines the role of urbanization and universal school in reshaping Navajo youth and considers the implications for changing patterns of alcohol use in adulthood. In addition the book explores a wide range of timely issues such as domestic violence, factors associated with resistance to alcohol abuse as well as remission and recovery, the treatment and prevention of alcohol dependence, and the implications of pursuing either population-based preventive interventions or interventions focussed on high risk individuals or groups.

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Oxford University Press

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0198031165

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9780198031161

Disease and Social Diversity

The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans

By: Stephen J. Kunitz

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Disease and Social Diversity

The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans

By: Stephen J. Kunitz

Public health specialists, epidemiologists, medical anthropologists, sociologists, and physicians are sure to gain insight from the theory and evidence presented in this well-researched work.

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0195108698

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9780195108699

Drinking Careers

A Twenty-five-year Study of Three Navajo Populations

By: Stephen J. Kunitz,Jerrold E. Levy

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Drinking Careers

A Twenty-five-year Study of Three Navajo Populations

By: Stephen J. Kunitz,Jerrold E. Levy

In this book, the first long-term follow-up study of alcohol use among Native Americans, a physician and sociologist and an anthropologist examine the data on three groups of Navajos whom they first interviewed about their use of alcohol in 1966. The authors find verification for their initial hypothesis that young men who would have been classed as alcoholic often stop or moderate their drinking as they age. They also find that there is considerable diversity in patterns of alcohol use among both women and men. Stephen J. Kunitz and Jerrold E. Levy study the histories of those who have died as well as those who have survived since the first study was done. They show that, compared to those who have survived, the former were more likely to have been solitary drinkers and were on average younger at the time when they were first interviewed. The authors also present data for the entire Navajo population on changing mortality from alcohol-related causes from the 1960s to the present; they compare alcohol-related death rates among Navajos to those among rural Anglos in Arizona and New Mexico; they analyze two family histories--one of a family with severe alcohol problems, the other of a family with none--that illustrate how traditional patterns of wealth have shaped the way people have learned to use alcohol; they study the factors that may have led to the emergence of a solitary, unrestrained drinking style among some Navajos; and they describe the changes in treatment programs and the transformation of traditional healing systems as they are integrated into a bureaucratized health care system.

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Yale University Press

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0300060009

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9780300060003

Regional Cultures and Mortality in America

By: Stephen J. Kunitz

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Regional Cultures and Mortality in America

By: Stephen J. Kunitz

Examines how state government policies and their historic beginnings have present-day effects on their residents' political lives and on population health, especially for marginalized groups.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107079632

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The Health of Populations

General Theories and Particular Realities

By: Stephen J. Kunitz M.D.

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General Theories and Particular Realities

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