How neighborhoods make us sick :
Squires, Veronica, 1983 -
How neighborhoods make us sick : restoring health and wellness to our communities / Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop. - 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Keri Norris; PART ONE: HOW WE GET SICK; 1 Two Journeys to the Inner City; 2 What Is Making Us Sick?: An Introduction to Social Determinants of Health; 3 The Trauma of Poverty; 4 Working to Death: Employment and Social Status; 5 Kool-Aid in a Baby Bottle: Food Insecurity and Nutrition; 6 Longevity and Learning: Education and Child Development; 7 When Housing Hurts: Environmental Factors; 8 The Challenge of Getting Well: Health Care Access in the United States; 9 The Unmaking: On Moving Out and Rebuilding; PART TWO: HOW WE GET WELL 10 A New Beginning: What Will Make Our Neighbors Healthy?11 The Good Sam Story; 12 Poverty: Addressing a Distant Disease; 13 Hired and Healthy; 14 Growing Health from the Ground Up; 15 A Healthy Start; 16 A Place to Call Home; 17 Reenvisioning Health Care; 18 Rx for Change: An Approach to Activism; Epilogue: Toward a Better Way; Acknowledgments; Discussion Questions; Notes; Subject Index; Praise for How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick; About the Authors; More Titles from InterVarsity Press
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick. If we truly want to love our neighbors, we must work to create social environments in which people can be healthy. While working in community redevelopment and treating uninsured families, Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop discovered that we can promote the health of our communities by addressing social determinants that facilitate healing in under-resourced neighborhoods.
9780830873357 083087335X
2018053001
Health--Social aspects.
Medical policy.
Human rights--Health aspects.
Right to health.
Health--Social aspects.
Human rights--Health aspects.
Medical policy.
Right to health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
Social Medicine.
Electronic books
RA418 / .S763 2019eb
362.1
WA 31
How neighborhoods make us sick : restoring health and wellness to our communities / Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop. - 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Keri Norris; PART ONE: HOW WE GET SICK; 1 Two Journeys to the Inner City; 2 What Is Making Us Sick?: An Introduction to Social Determinants of Health; 3 The Trauma of Poverty; 4 Working to Death: Employment and Social Status; 5 Kool-Aid in a Baby Bottle: Food Insecurity and Nutrition; 6 Longevity and Learning: Education and Child Development; 7 When Housing Hurts: Environmental Factors; 8 The Challenge of Getting Well: Health Care Access in the United States; 9 The Unmaking: On Moving Out and Rebuilding; PART TWO: HOW WE GET WELL 10 A New Beginning: What Will Make Our Neighbors Healthy?11 The Good Sam Story; 12 Poverty: Addressing a Distant Disease; 13 Hired and Healthy; 14 Growing Health from the Ground Up; 15 A Healthy Start; 16 A Place to Call Home; 17 Reenvisioning Health Care; 18 Rx for Change: An Approach to Activism; Epilogue: Toward a Better Way; Acknowledgments; Discussion Questions; Notes; Subject Index; Praise for How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick; About the Authors; More Titles from InterVarsity Press
Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick. If we truly want to love our neighbors, we must work to create social environments in which people can be healthy. While working in community redevelopment and treating uninsured families, Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop discovered that we can promote the health of our communities by addressing social determinants that facilitate healing in under-resourced neighborhoods.
9780830873357 083087335X
2018053001
Health--Social aspects.
Medical policy.
Human rights--Health aspects.
Right to health.
Health--Social aspects.
Human rights--Health aspects.
Medical policy.
Right to health.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
Social Medicine.
Electronic books
RA418 / .S763 2019eb
362.1
WA 31