With chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction - Susan C. Scrimshaw, Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein and Julian Fisher
• Part 1: Culture, Society and Health
• Cultural Variations in the Experience of Health and Illness - Pamela I. Erickson and Cynthia A. Frank
• Social Determinants of Health: Intersectional Impacts of Race, Class, Ethnicity and Place - Ruth Enid Zambrana, Deborah Parra-Medina, and Courtney Butler
• The Social Causation of Health and Illness - Johannes Siegrist
• The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness: Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories - Bryan S. Turner
• The Sociomaterial Nature of the Body and Medicine - Deborah Lupton
• Network Analysis: The Social Bridge to Health - Douglas A. Luke and Beth Prusaczyk
• Personal Experience of Illness - Christine Holmberg and Martina Breuning
• Anthropological Approaches to Food and Nutrition - Miguel Cuj and Susan C. Scrimshaw
• Community Engaged Learning: Community Health and Learning through Service in Sri Lanka - Suzanne M. Gaulocher, Tumisang Ramarea, Vinya Ariyaratne, and N. Ewen Wang
• Part 2: Lived Experiences
• Historical Trauma and Epigenetics - Wencheng Zhang, Gary Rodziewicz, Margaret Voss, and Sandra D. Lane
• Historical Trauma and Health Injustice in Indigenous Communities - Corinne Yawęnęhà·wi Abrams and Lois Jircitano
• Refugees, Life in Host Communities, and the Health Challenges - Julia McDaniel, Andrea V. Shaw, and Jok Madut Jok
• Gender and Health - Humayra Mayat, Mariel Rivera, and Sandra D. Lane
• A Public Health Approach to Loneliness and Isolation among Older Adults - Thomas Prohaska, Roger O'Sullivan, Gerard Leavey, and Annette Burns
• Mental Illness, the Global Landscape of Stigma, and the Power of Social Relationships - Bernice A. Pescosolido and Bianca N. Manago
• From Ableism to Amplitude: A Celebration of Dis/ability - Norah A. Schwartz
• Social and Geopolitical Factors Influencing Trends in Substance Use - Dessa Bergen-Cico, David Otiashvili, Irma Kirtadze, and Jay Jeong Hyun Park
• Part 3: Health Care Systems, Access and Use
• Comparative Health Systems: Paradigm Changes - Cecilia Vindrola-Padros and Linda M. Whiteford
• Health Service Utilization and Barriers to Health Care - Lutchmie Narine and Ambika Krishnakumar
• Measuring Health and Health Related Quality of Life - Manu Raj Mathur and Deepti Nagrath
• Lay Participation in Healthcare Policy, Planning and Practice: To What End? - Deena White
• Complementary and Integrative Health and Medicine Practices and Systems - Elizabeth A. Goldblatt and Stacy Gomes
• Childbirth, Midwifery and Obstetrics: Global Issues in Maternity Care - Robbie Davis-Floyd with Ibu Robin Lim
• Medicalization and Pharmaceuticalization: A Conceptual Analysis - Tom Douglass and Michael Calnan
• Digital Health: An Important Public Health Tool - Lina Williatte-Pellitteri, Nesrine Benyahia, Thierry Moulin and Nicolas Giraudeau
• Health Behaviors and Social Media - Bhavneet Walia and Christopher Boudreaux
• Part 4: Health in Environmental and Planetary Context
• The Ecological Paradox: Health and Environment in the 21st Century - Daniel Hryhorczuk and Alex Hryhorczuk
• Connecting Human Health to Nature Health: The Bridging Potential of Sustainable Food Systems - Theresa Tribaldos and Stephan Rist
• Syndemics and Structural Violence - Merrill Singer and Barbara Rylko-Bauer
• Disaster and Health - Robert A. Rubinstein
• Occupational Health in the 21st Century - Lorraine M. Conroy and Linda Forst
• Economic and Health Policy in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda - Jesús Gómez Rossi and Falk Schwendicke
• The Social Determinants of Lifelong Learning - Julian Fisher, Patricia Cuff, Ian Couper, Klaus von Pressentin, Roger Strasser, Lionel Green-Thompson and Aparna Roy