For interest. It would be great if a social work contribution was included in this publication!
Paul
Professor Paul Bywaters
Emeritus Professor of Social Work
Coventry University
Priory Street,
Coventry
CV1 5FB
02476 795384
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Subject: PHA-Exch> CALL FOR PAPERS: Social Inequalities and Health
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From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dennis Raphael
CALL FOR PAPERS
Temple University Pressplans a volume devoted to Social Inequalities and Health. In many nations the economic and political changes associated with increasing economic globalization have been seen as heightening social inequalities with potential negative effects on health outcomes. This has led to a flurry of research and policy activity concerned with reducing these social and health inequalities.
Such activity has taken two separate but related forms. The first is an increased interest in what is termed the social determinants of health. These factors are identified as the economic and social factors that shape health. Much of this work has been concerned with specifying the parameters by which these social determinants of health come to shape health. It has been less concerned with identifying the political, economic, and social forces that shape the quality of these social determinants of health.
The second form of work specifies the political, economic, and social forces that shape these social determinants of health and how these forces represent systematic inequalities in power and influence within a society. This work is explicitly concerned with the political economy of health and devotes attention to issues of public policy and its development, the sources of public policy development, and the means by which these forces can be influenced in the service of health.
Papers are invited that will draw upon these two areas of research activity and should focus on various aspects of how social inequalities come about and how they are linked to health outcomes. These papers must incorporate a concern with each of the following:
- social inequalities and differing living conditions and how these result in health inequalities (a social determinants of health perspective);
- public policies and how these shape the presence of social inequalities and health inequalities (a public policy point of view);
- the roles the State, market economy, and civil society play in shaping the distribution of political, economic, and social resources (a political economy analysis); and
- an examination of these issues within a framework that considers the political, economic, and social forces that lead to jurisdictional differences in health outcomes (a comparative perspective).
Manuscripts should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages of text plus notes and should follow the American Sociological Association guidelines. <http://www.humanistsociology.org/> Papers should be submitted via email to <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dennis Raphael at [log in to unmask] Deadline for submission is October 1, 2008.
TIMELINE
March 25, 2007: Call for papers distributed
October 1, 2008: Deadline for submissions
Estimated Publication Date: August 2010
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