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Sick Societies: Responding to the global challenge of chronic disease de David Stuckler

Sick Societies: Responding to the global challenge of chronic disease

Editat de David Stuckler, Karen Siegel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2011

Remarcăm în Sick Societies o rigoare analitică susținută de cele 61 de desene liniare și grafice care fundamentează vizual dimensiunea crizei globale a bolilor cronice. Această lucrare, publicată de Oxford University Press, nu se limitează la o descriere clinică, ci propune o sinteză interdisciplinară necesară înțelegerii modului în care bolile cardiovasculare, diabetul și afecțiunile respiratorii au devenit principalele cauze de mortalitate la nivel mondial. Structura volumului facilitează o tranziție logică de la datele epidemiologice brute către analiza complexă a politicilor de sănătate care au stagnat răspunsul global.

Subliniem abordarea pragmatică a editorilor David Stuckler și Karen Siegel, care plasează povara bolilor netransmisibile în contextul dezvoltării economice. În timp ce în The Body Economic, David Stuckler analiza costurile umane ale crizelor financiare, în acest volum extinde cadrul de cercetare către mecanismele politice și economice care influențează sănătatea publică. Sick Societies completează excelent titlul Chronic Diseases de Adelia Bovell-Benjamin prin adăugarea unei perspective critice asupra economiei politice și a puterii în sănătatea globală, dincolo de simplele proiecții statistice de prevalență.

Lectura dezvăluie un ton clinic, obiectiv, evitând speculațiile în favoarea dovezilor sintetizate din baze de date globale. Partea finală, care include contribuții de la experți de renume, transformă volumul dintr-un manual teoretic într-un instrument de lucru pentru specialiștii care caută modele de solidaritate pragmatică între națiunile dezvoltate și cele în curs de dezvoltare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199574407
ISBN-10: 0199574405
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 61 black and white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 172 x 247 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din sănătate publică și studenților la epidemiologie care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile sistemice ale bolilor cronice. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă integrată asupra modului în care factorii economici influențează patologia modernă. Este un instrument esențial pentru argumentarea politicilor de prevenție în fața provocărilor economice actuale, oferind date concrete pentru combaterea celor mai frecvente cauze de mortalitate globală.

Despre autor

David Stuckler, M.P.H., Ph.D., este un lider de cercetare la University of Oxford și cercetător onorific la London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre economie și sănătatea publică globală, fiind recunoscut pentru analizele sale privind impactul politicilor macroeconomice asupra bunăstării populației. În Sick Societies, el utilizează rigoarea academică dobândită în centrele de elită din Oxford și Londra pentru a coordona o analiză exhaustivă a bolilor netransmisibile, consolidându-și profilul de cercetător dedicat justiției sociale și eficienței sistemelor de sănătate.

Descriere

Chronic diseases-heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and common cancers-claim more than one out of every two lives worldwide. Within the next few decades their toll will rise, most greatly in developing countries. Yet this rapid growth of chronic diseases is not being met with a proportionate global response. Left unaddressed, they pose a major threat to social and economic development. This book is the first to synthesize the growing evidence-base surrounding chronic disease, comprehensively addressing the prevention and control of chronic diseases from epidemiologic, economic, prevention/management, and political economy perspectives. Sick Societies is written in five main parts. The first three chapters explore the causes and consequences of chronic diseases on a global level. Chapter four identifi es different approaches to preventing and managing chronic diseases, while chapters five and six consider the power and politics in global health that have stymied an effective response to chronic disease. In chapter seven, the themes from the first three parts come into focus through a series of invited contributions from leading public health experts. The final chapter sets out a model of pragmatic and imaginative solidarity, wherein the struggles of the rich and poor to survive are united by a common cause and shared goals.

Recenzii

This is a fascinating sociological and political view of the structure of the food and health industries in the modern world and how they are responsible for the epidemic we are seeing of obesity and its associated diseases.
Stuckler and Siegel's book expertly pulls together the essential data and ideas needed to combat chronic diseases. It will be a mandatory reader for courses in global health.
From health system financing to the financialization of the global economy, there is scarcely a dimension of our chronic disease pandemic that this book leaves unexplored. There is no better or more timely a text than this one from which to take that step.
This is a powerful, important and ultimately subversive book. It situates the origins and response to the global epidemic of chronic (noncommunicable) diseases as issues of social justice. This book is a must- read for all engaged with chronic diseases, especially, for people not yet engaged whether they be health professionals, development experts or concerned citizens.
Sick Societies is a highly ambitious and accessible book that succeeds in bringing together key material to make the case for accelerated action to address the global chronic disease epidemic. I would highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in chronic disease, and as a key text for courses in global health and public health.
With one out of every three deaths in the world now being caused by four types of chronic disease-heart disease, respiratory disease, common cancers, and type 2 diabetes-what path should public health practitioners take to stem the rising human and financial cost of non-communicable diseases? David Stuckler and Karen Siegel have edited a new data-driven tome that addresses this question better than any text I've seen to date-providing essential reading both for epidemiologists and public health campaigners looking for data and guidance in their movements for healthier foods, cleaner air, and access to essential medicines and primary care medical homes.

Notă biografică

David Stuckler, is a university lecturer in sociology at Cambridge University and research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Chatham House. He has written over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the economics of global health in The Lancet, Nature, and Foreign Affairs in addition to other major journals. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, his MPH from Yale University and his PhD from Cambridge before becoming a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at Oxford and receiving an appointment as an assistant professor at Harvard. He has won grants from the World Health Organization and UNICEF on the political economy of healthcare, and from the European Centers for Disease Control on the impact of economic crises on public health. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford on the subjects of global politics, economics and health as well as quantitative methods.Karen Siegel, MPH, is a PhD student in Nutrition and Health Sciences and a Woodruff Scholar at Emory University's Laney Graduate School and Rollins School of Public Health. She has written articles on environmental and policy approaches to prevent chronic diseases in India and globally, as well as on diabetes advocacy issues and chronic disease curricula improvement, in Health Affairs, The Lancet, Globalization & Health, and Nursing Standard. Previously, she played a major role in the development of the Oxford Health Alliance's Community Interventions for Health as part of the study's evaluation team, based at Matrix Public Health Solutions, Inc. and later at Oxford University. Siegel received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MPH from Yale School of Public Health. She is co-chair of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network.