Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: Theory to Action: A Project of the National Association of County and City Health Officials

by Rajiv Bhatia and Richard Hofrichter

Book Overview

Social justice has always been a core value driving public health. Today, much of the etiology of avoidable disease is rooted in inequitable social conditions brought on by disparities in wealth and power and reproduced through ongoing forms of oppression, exploitation, and marginalization.

Tackling Health Inequities raises questions and provides a starting point for health practitioners ready to reorient public health practice to address the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019534314X
• ISBN13: 9780195343144
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"