Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
From the Material to the Social in Population Health......Page 17
Pathways from institutions and culture to Health......Page 19
Bringing culture Back in......Page 22
Institutions, Public Policy Making, and Health......Page 28
Social Processes and causal Structures......Page 33
Conclusion......Page 35
Introduction......Page 37
Population Health: Overview and Current Evidence......Page 38
The Phenomenon of Socioeconomic Gradients in Health......Page 41
SES Gradients Suggest the Fundamental Influence of Societal Determinants of Health......Page 43
Reconnecting Populations to the Individuals That Comprise Them......Page 47
The Value of comparative Perspectives......Page 48
Processes Unfolding over Time......Page 49
Health Outcomes......Page 52
Analysis......Page 53
Why Relative Income and Public Provision Matter for Population Health: A Look at Potential Mechanisms Linking Social Inequality to Population Health......Page 57
Understanding the evolution of Population Health over time......Page 58
The Male-Female Life Expectancy Gap......Page 59
Reconnecting the Mechanisms: Drilling Down from Macro to Micro in Canada versus United States......Page 60
Good Health in Bad Times: Russia versus Czech Republic......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 65
2 Social Interactions in Human Development: Pathways to Health and Capabilities......Page 67
The Social Gradient in Health......Page 74
Society, Biology, and Human Development: Escaping Determinism......Page 79
Conceptual Model of Social and Developmental Mediators of the Social Gradient in Developmental Health......Page 82
Social and Developmental Mediators of the Social Gradient in Health......Page 85
A Sense of Control: Social Hierarchies and the Stress Response System......Page 88
A Sense of Connection: Social Relationships and the Social Reward System......Page 91
The Emergence of Consciousness: Identity and Meaning......Page 93
An Integrated System: Collective and Individual Capabilities......Page 94
3 Health, Social Relations, and Public Policy......Page 96
A Basic Model Linking Population Health to Economic and Social Relations......Page 97
The Impact of Economic Relations......Page 99
Social Relations as Social Resources......Page 101
Social Capital......Page 102
Social Networks......Page 103
Collective Imaginaries......Page 104
Social Hierarchy......Page 107
The Capabilities of Communities......Page 109
Public Policy Making as Social Resource Creation......Page 111
Social Connectedness......Page 112
Social Hierarchy......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 116
4 Population Health and Development: An Institutional-Cultural Approach to Capability Expansion......Page 118
Arguments about Population Health and Development......Page 119
Reconceptualizing Population Health Variations in Poor Countries......Page 124
Institutions, Culture, and Improved Health Outcomes in Poor Countries......Page 130
Lessons for Population Health and Development Theory......Page 137
Outlining the Issues......Page 142
Variations in Political Response: Problems and Paradoxes......Page 146
A Political Paradox: Botswana versus Uganda......Page 147
Leadership......Page 148
Money, Government Competence, Public Health Infrastructure......Page 150
NGOs and Outside Funding......Page 151
Culture, Legitimacy, and the Problem of "Cultural Match"......Page 152
Solidarities and Silences......Page 156
The Heart of the Matter......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 161
Objectives and Contributions......Page 165
Destigmatization Strategies......Page 169
Antiracism among Black Working-Class Men......Page 172
The African American Elite......Page 173
Black Marketing Executives......Page 174
North African Immigrants in France......Page 175
The Impact of Destigmatization Strategies on Mental Health......Page 176
The Future Agenda......Page 180
7 Collective Imaginaries and Population Health: How Health Data Can Highlight Cultural History......Page 183
Collective Imaginary as Articulation of Reason and Myth......Page 186
The Sociocultural/Health Framework Encapsulated: Identity Deprivation and Physical Disorders among Qubec Indians......Page 190
The Survival Thesis......Page 192
The Modernist Thesis......Page 195
The Missing Narrative......Page 196
The 1850-1960 French Canadian Imaginary: Ineffective Myths, Fragmentary Thought......Page 200
The Health Record......Page 204
A Complex, Unpredictable Journey: From Collective Imaginaries to Behaviors - and Backward......Page 211
The Case for a New Paradigm......Page 213
8 Making Sense of Contagion: Citizenship Regimes and Public Health in Victorian England......Page 215
Analytic Tools for Thinking about Policy Variation......Page 216
In Public Health, "Politics Matters"......Page 217
Politics and Citizenship Regimes......Page 219
Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: Only Partial Implementation of the Sanitary Idea......Page 221
Sanitarians and Public Health......Page 222
Fitting the "Sanitary Idea" into the Age of Reform's Citizenship Regime......Page 227
The Reconfigured Citizenship Regime after 1870: Progress for the Sanitary Idea Opposition to Sanitarians......Page 231
The Politics of Water and Sewers in the 1870s......Page 232
Citizenship and Bodily Integrity - Opposition to Sanitarians......Page 234
Summary and Conclusions......Page 238
Introduction......Page 240
Diversity and the Welfare State......Page 243
The Case for a Heterogeneity/Redistribution Trade-Off......Page 245
The Case for a Recognition/Redistribution Trade-Off......Page 247
Testing the Heterogeneity/Redistribution Trade-Off......Page 252
Testing the Recognition/Redistribution Trade-Off......Page 254
Rethinking the Underlying Mechanisms......Page 258
Conclusion......Page 266
10 From State-Centrism to Neoliberalism: Macro-Historical Contexts of Population Health since World War II......Page 268
The Rise of the State-Centric Paradigm......Page 270
Cultural Transformations......Page 276
The Neoliberal Offensive......Page 286
The Global Contours of a Neoliberal Present......Page 294
Prospects for Population Health in a Neoliberal World......Page 299
Bibliography......Page 303
Index......Page 349