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The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream

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Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the “upstream” imagery from public health discourse, which locates the causes (and solutions) of health problems within the social environment.

Each chapter explains how the policies, politics, and power behind corporate and governmental decisions and actions produce unhealthy circumstances of living – such as poverty, pollution, dangerous working conditions, and unhealthy modes of food production – and demonstrates that putting profit and politics over people is unhealthy and unsustainable.

 

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