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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “fernando de maio”
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  • Global Health Inequities

    A Sociological Perspective

    by Fernando De Maio ...
    Series series Sociology for Globalizing Societies
    Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pharmaceutical developments, access to already-existing medicines is hindered by economic and political barriers for poor people around the world.Critical but accessible, Global Health Inequities questions ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, Ignacio Llovet, Graciela Dinardi ...
    The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Community Health Equity

    A Chicago Reader

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, John Mazzeo, David A. Ansell, MD, M.D. Raj C. Shah, MD ...
    Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Equity assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago’s structural socioeconomic inequalities have had on patients and medical facilities alike. The work collected here makes clear that when a city is sharply divided by power, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Unequal Cities

    Structural Racism and the Death Gap in America's Largest Cities

    Edited by Maureen R. Benjamins, Fernando G. De Maio ...
    Series series Health Equity in America
    Across the United States, Black people have shorter life expectancies than white people—reflecting structural racism and deep-rooted drivers of population health. But are some cities more equal than others?The elimination of racial and ethnic inequities—differences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfair—has been one of the overarching health-related goals of the United States for decades. Yet ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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    Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

    by Edward Fergus ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    by Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre ...
    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Transgender Sex Work and Society

    Edited by Larry Nuttbrock ...
    This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Pigmentocracies

    Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    by Edward Telles ...
    Pigmentocracies — the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) — is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America’s most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD