Deconstructing health inequity : a perceptual control theory perspective / / Timothy A. Carey, Sara J. Tai, Robert Griffiths ; foreword by Neil Gilbert

• Autore: Carey Timothy A.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 173 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetto topico: Social medicine; Assistència sanitària; Medicina social; Igualtat; Política sanitària
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics; Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): TaiSara J.; GriffithsRobert; GilbertNeil
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Beginning the Search for Answers -- Entering the Health Inequity Field -- A Bias Towards Understanding How People Work -- A Lack of Agreement in the Field -- Could Perspective Be Part of the Problem? -- Sharing Our Journey -- The Link Between Income Inequity and Health Outcomes -- The Main Point and Some Nuances of Which to Be Aware -- A Closer Look at the Findings -- Explaining Why Income Inequity Might Have the Effect That It Does -- Alternative Views About the Research -- Pausing to Reflect -- References -- 2 A Closer Look at the Scientific Literature -- The Contribution of Theoretical Frameworks -- Methodological Considerations -- Seeking Conceptual Clarity -- Concluding Comments and Common Themes -- References -- 3 Inequity Through a Different Lens: An Introduction to Perceptual Control Theory -- Let's Start at the Very Beginning -- The Ubiquitous Phenomenon of Control -- Invariant Laws Will Not Be Discovered Through the Study of Variability -- Mechanisms and Models -- Considering Causality -- But Doesn't Everyone Already Know All This? -- In a Nutshell -- References -- 4 Health Through the Lens of Control: A Different Look at Well-Being and Being Well -- What Is Health? -- Controlling Is a Bio-Psycho-Social Process -- What Would Thinking About Health in This Way Mean? -- If We Define Health Differently, We Might Study It Differently Too -- References -- 5 Research Through the Lens of Control: Reflecting on What We're Doing from a Different Vantage Point -- We Are All Controllers All the Time -- Researchers as Controllers -- Examples of Researchers' Controlling -- It Doesn't Matter How Closely We Scrutinise Inequity -- It Doesn't Matter How Many Linear Causal Pathways We Construct -- It's Loops Not Lines When It Comes to Causality. ; The General State of the Literature with Regard to Causality -- Some People Seem to Know Something Is Amiss -- Every Now and then an Exciting Glimmer of Circular Causality Appears -- But with the Wrong Model We're Still Asking the Wrong Questions -- But Wait! There's More ... -- References -- 6 Supercharging Our Research Efforts: A Matter of Control -- It Doesn't Matter How Complex Our Statistical Analyses Are -- We'll Never Spin Correlations into Causation -- Statistics Are Good but They Are Not That Good -- The Scientific Insignificance of Statistical Significance -- Life Is Not an Averaged Event -- Making It Matter -- What Could We Be Studying? -- What Model Could We Use? -- What Methods Could We Employ? -- Don't Go Anywhere! We're Not Done Yet ... -- References -- 7 Yes! That Really Is What We Mean -- Researching Controllers -- Setting the Scene: Detecting Clues About Control from the Very Beginning -- The Controllers Who Made It Happen -- Hoff and Pandey -- Experimenters -- Participants and Parents -- Other People Who Were Involved in the Research -- The Procedures and Activities -- The Variables and Treatments -- The Treatment Instructions -- The Results -- What Is Striking -- What Else Is There to Say? -- References -- 8 But Wait, There's More! Control Affects Practice as Much as Research -- Acknowledging People as Controllers in Our Practices -- Patient-Perspective Care: A New Paradigm of Healthcare Based on Control -- It Doesn't Have to Be Difficult: Patient-Led Appointment Scheduling -- Acknowledging People as Controllers in Our Health Policies and Models -- Policies Within Health That Promote Inequity -- There's Nothing Public About Health -- References -- 9 Well That's That Then. We're All Controllers All Controlling Together. So What? -- The True Measure of Any Society Can Be Found in How It Treats Its Most Vulnerable Members. ; Scientists Have Learned to Respect Nothing but Evidence, and to Believe that Their Highest Duty Lies in Submitting to It However It May Jar Against Their Inclinations -- Facts Are Stubborn Things, and Whatever May Be Our Wishes, Our Inclinations, or the Dictums of Our Passions, They Cannot Alter the State of Facts and Evidence -- The Habit of an Opinion Often Leads to the Complete Conviction of Its Truth, It Hides the Weaker Parts of It, and Makes Us Incapable of Accepting the Proofs Against It -- Truth Does not Change Because It Is, or Is not Believed by a Majority of the People -- In Questions of Science, the Authority of a Thousand Is not Worth the Humble Reasoning of a Single Individual -- We Have to Live Today by What Truth We Can Get Today, and Be Ready Tomorrow to Call It Falsehood -- I Cannot Say Whether Things Will Get Better if We Change -- What I Can Say Is They Must Change if They Are to Get Better -- The Childhood of the Human Race Is Far from Over. We Have a Long Way to Go Before Most People Will Understand that What They Do for Others Is Just as Important to Their Wellbeing as What They Do for Themselves -- The so What of It All -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Deconstructing health inequity
• ISBN: 3-030-68053-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910484950803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II