Care for major health problems and population health concerns [[electronic resource] ] : impacts on patients, providers and policy / / edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, : Emerald Jai, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetto topico: Medical care; Public health
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KronenfeldJennie J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Care for Major Health Problems and Population Health Concerns: Impacts on Patients, Providers and Policy; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Section 1: Introduction to Issues of Population Health and Major Health Problems; Chapter 1. Population health concerns and major health problems: An introduction to the topic and the volume; Introduction to population health; Sociological discussions of population health and the importance of social class; Population health concerns and newer research articles; Review of the other sections and selections in this volume; References ; Section 2: Chronic Health ProblemsChapter 2. How and why the motivation and skill to self-manage coronary heart disease are socially unequal; Introduction; Inequalities in health; Inequalities in managing chronic illness; Methods; Results; Discussion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. Functional ability and disability among older adults with arthritis: The impact of age, duration of arthritis, and severity of arthritis; Introduction; Background; Data and methodology; Results; Discussion; Notes; References ; Chapter 4. Weight loss surgery patients' negotiations of medicine's institutional logicIntroduction; Theoretical considerations; Methods; Developing an ideal patient archetype; Patients' negotiations of the ideal archetype; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Section 3: Women and Specialized Health Problems; Chapter 5. From the patient's point of view: Practitioner interaction styles in the treatment of women with chronic STDs; Intersections of morality and medicine; Socio-historical perspectives on STDs; Sexual health interactions: Stigmatized crossroads ; Models of practitioner-patient interaction stylesThe importance of studying patients' perceptions of practitioner-patient interactions; Setting and method; Practitioner interaction styles; Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 6. ''I'm Still Here'': a 10 year follow-up of women's experiences living with HIV; Introduction; Background; Methods; Results; Discussionsolconclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Section 4: Mental Health; Chapter 7. Physicians as advocates for their patients: Depression treatment in primary care; Introduction; Physicians as street-level bureaucrats ; Research objectivesMethods; Results; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix. Interview questions; Chapter 8. Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans: results from the national Latino and Asian American study; Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans; Social support, Asian Americans and mental health services; Research methods; Findings; Discussion; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Section 5: Broader Considerations about Population Health in Specialized Populations and Across Countries ; Chapter 9. ''Falling through the cracks'': health care needs of the older homeless population and their implications
• Sommario/riassunto: Deals with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving provision of health care as related to major health problems. This work examines social, demographic and structural problems, and a variety of health problems including chronic illnesse
• Titolo autorizzato: Care for major health problems and population health concerns
• ISBN: 1-280-77102-X; 9786613681799; 1-84855-161-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455027303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research in the sociology of health care ; ; v. 26.