Biocultural Approaches to Health Disparities in Global Contexts

by Satish Kedia and David Himmelgreen

The study of health disparities has emerged as an important theme in public health and the social sciences, and efforts to eliminate health disparities are a major thrust of governments and nongovernmental organizations in the US and abroad. Initially, much work focused on identifying disparities with less emphasis on the contexts that create these disparities. An important shift over the past two decades has been the recognition that health disparities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1119186277
• ISBN13: 9781119186274
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.9"