Socioeconomic status and health implications

In: Social justice, equality and empowerment

Abstract

Intro -- SOCIOECONOMIC STATUSAND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS -- SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUALITY ANDEMPOWERMENT -- HEALTH CARE ISSUES, COSTS AND ACCESS -- SOCIOECONOMIC STATUSAND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. DIABETES,MARGINALITY AND GENDER IDENTITY:CHALLENGES AND CONTRADICTIONS IN MEN'SDIABETES CARE IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter Outline -- THE INTERLOCUTORS -- THE SETTING -- OVERVIEW OF THE FIELDWORK ANDITS METHODOLOGIES -- POVERTY AND ILLNESS -- Structural Challenges to Effective Diabetes Care -- The Time and Efforts Put into Diabetes Care -- DIABETIC DISRUPTIONS TO MALE GENDER IDENTITY -- Challenges to the Arena of Employment -- Extramarital Relations -- Masculinity and Impotence -- Diabetes, Impotence and Stigma -- DOING AWAY WITH DIABETES -- GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ILLNESS EXPERIENCES -- RISKS AND CONTRADICTIONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF HEALTH SERVICE INTHE SOUTHERN-PERIPHERY OF ISRAEL -- ABSTRACT -- 1. HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN CONNECTION WITH SOCIAL,ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN ISRAEL -- 2. DEMOGRAPHICS AND GEOGRAPHY OF THESOUTHERN-PERIPHERY OF ISRAEL -- 3. HEALTH ISSUES IN THE SOUTHERN-PERIPHERY OF ISRAEL -- Objectives -- 4. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH - DISTANCE AND SOCIO-ECONOMICLEVEL AS A HEALTH SERVICE PREDICTOR WITHIN THESOUTHERN-PERIPHERY OF ISRAEL[20] -- Distance -- Socio-Economical Level -- Size of Town -- Other Independent Variables -- The Bedouin of the Southern Periphery -- Summary -- 5. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH - DISTANCE ANDSOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF HEALTHSERVICE IN THE SOUTHERN-PERIPHERY OFISRAEL FROM THE PERSPECTIVEOF THE RESIDENTS -- The Southern Experience" -The Picture That Emerges from the Themes.