This volume covers macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving health and health care concerns for women, and racial and ethnic minorities. Topics covered include examination of health
Editor Kronenfeld (sociology, Arizona State University) gathers contributors in sociology, education, emergency medicine, gender studies, political science, and urban studies in this work for students
Sociologists and other social scientists, and medical and other health-care researchers explore sociological dimensions of relations between health care and people. The overall themes are providers of
Are the poor always sick or are the sick always poor? These dozen or so contributors of essays seek to examine the linkages between poverty and illness and the reasons for them. They examine macro-lev
This volume provides a unique sociological focus on education, social factors and health beliefs in health and health care, including a review of the literature to date.Beliefs and health beliefs are
Focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. This title includes six articles looking at racial disparities on a variety of topics such as: knowledge of hepa
Contributors from America and international contributors from Norway, Taiwan, and Malaysia highlight current work in the field of technology in healthcare and healthcare services. Part one provides a
This volume features papers on the theme of issues in health and health care for special groups, social factors and disparities.This includes papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-le
This volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care analyses micro-level gender issues and other social factors impacting macro-level health care systems. Examining the health and health care issu
