PHA-Exch> CALL FOR PAPERS: Social Inequalities and Health

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Maija Kagis <maija.kagis at sympatico.ca>

*From:* Social Determinants of Health [mailto:SDOH at YORKU.CA] *On
Behalf Of *Dennis
Raphael
*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Temple University Press*plans 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
<humanityandsociety at wku.edu>Dennis Raphael at draphael at yorku.ca.  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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