Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health

Edited by Toba Bryant, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Canada

‘An accessible and engaging exploration of the “social determinants of health”, which combines historical accounts of the term’s origins with contemporary analyses of unequal health experiences. The book argues that we are experiencing a global “polycrisis” and proposes that “post-capitalist” solutions are needed to achieve more equitable and sustainable outcomes.’

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health 2Toba BryantPART II DEFINING THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH2 Historical perspectives 13Stella Medvedyuk and Dennis Raphael3 Conceptualizing the social determinants of health: the value of a globalpolitical economy of health perspective 27Courtney McNamara4 Pathways to health and illness 34Stephen Bezruchka5 COVID as a political economy event: pandemic and syndemic 49Robert Chernomas and Ian HudsonPART III KEY SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH6 The level and distribution of income and wealth 65Gerry McCartney7 Employment, health, and the laws of accumulation 81Scott Aquanno and Toba Bryant8 Early life and the social determinants of health 92Stephen Bezruchka9 Food security 111Zsofia Mendly-Zambo10 Housing (un)affordability, (in)security and (in)justice as socialdeterminants of health 126Nicola Livingstone11 Providing public income support may advance public health: recentfederal policy developments in Canada’s social safety net 140Michael J. PrincePART IV SPECIAL POPULATIONS: THE ISMs AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION12 Huronia’s lessons: how ableist violence determines health 153Jen Rinaldi13 Classism and health inequities: what the body remembers 165Elizabeth McGibbon14 The political economy of racialized health inequities: a panoramic view 189Arnel M. Borras15 Intersectional and embodied: migration as a social determinant of health 203Denise L. Spitzer16 Metropolitan health in a neoliberalizing world 219Ted Schrecker17 Colonialism and Indigenous peoples 234Darrel Manitowabi18 Decolonizing social determinants of health? South Americanperspectives and future challenges 247Cristian Montenegro and Felipe SzabzonPART V GEOGRAPHIES OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE19 An overview of social determinants of health in Africa 260Morris D. C. Komakech20 The social determinants of superbugs: antimicrobial resistance in South Asia 277Katia S. Mohindra, Fariha Haseen and Madison Adams21 Social determinants of health in Continental Europe and the relevanceof migration 292Ursula Trummer, Sonja Novak-Zezula and Ina Teresa Wilczewska22 The establishment of a market model of healthcare in Chile: 1973–90 305Jaime Llambías-Wolff23 Policies to address the social determinants of health: a Nordic perspective 315Elisabeth Fosse24 Social and commercial determinants of health and health equity in Australia 327Fran Baum and Toby FreemanPART VI EMERGING THEMES25 Economic globalization 340Ted Schrecker26 Austerity, neoliberalism and population health 356Gerry McCartney27 Crisis of capitalism: social welfare states or socialist states as the way forward? 371Dennis Raphael and Toba Bryant28 The Anthropocenes: collisions with the social determinants of health 385Elizabeth McGibbonPART VII MOVING FORWARD29 The promise of left politics 404Dennis Pilon30 Morbid symptoms: edging towards the end of the neoliberal age 415Simon Winlow31 Challenging power and structural inequality through intersectionalmovement building 426Shauna MacKinnonPART VIII CONCLUSION32 Conclusion: prospects for political and social transformation 438Toba Bryant