With new chapters on key topics such as mental health, the environment, race, ethnicity and health, and pharmaceuticals, this new edition maintains its multidisciplinary framework and bridges the gap between health policy and the sociology of health. It builds upon the success of the first by encompassing a range of issues, studies, and disciplines. The broad coverage of topics in addition to new chapters present an engagement with contemporary issues, resulting in a valuable teaching aid. This second edition brings together a diverse range of leading international scholars with contributors from Australia, Puerto-Rico, USA, Guatemala, Germany, Sri Lanka, Botswana, UK, South Sudan, Mexico, South Korea, Canada and more. The second edition of this Handbook remains a key resource for undergraduates, post-graduates, and researchers across multidisciplinary backgrounds including: medicine, health and social care, sociology, and anthropology.   PART ONE: Culture, Society and Health PART TWO: Lived Experiences PART THREE: Health Care Systems, Access and Use PART FOUR: Health in Environmental and Planetary Context

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction - Susan C. Scrimshaw, Sandra D. Lane, Robert A. Rubinstein, & Julian Fisher Part 1: Culture, Society and Health Chapter 2: Cultural Variation in the Experience of Health and Illness - Pamela I. Erickson & Cynthia A. Frank Chapter 3: The Intersectional Impact of Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Place on Social Determinants of Health across the Life Course - Ruth Enid Zambrana, Deborah Parra-Medina, & Courtney Butler Chapter 4: The Social Causation of Health and Illness - Johannes Siegrist Chapter 5: The History of the Changing Concepts of Health and Illness: Outline of a General Model of Illness Categories - Bryan S. Turner Chapter 6: The Sociomaterial Nature of the Body and Medicine - Deborah Lupton Chapter 7: Network Analysis: The Social Bridge to Health - Douglas A. Luke & Beth Prusaczyk Chapter 8: Personal Experience of Illness - Christine Holmberg & Martina Breuning Chapter 9: Anthropological Approaches to Food and Nutrition - Miguel Cuj & Susan C. Scrimshaw Chapter 10: Community Engaged Learning: Community Health and Learning Through Service in Sri Lanka - Suzanne Gaulocher, Ewen N. Wang, Vinya Ariyaratne, & Tumisang Rameria Part 2: Lived Experiences Chapter 11: Historical Trauma and Epigenetics - Wencheng Zhang, Gary Rodziewicz, Margaret Voss, & Sandra Lane Chapter 12: Historical Trauma and Health Injustice in Indigenous Communities - Corinne Abrams & Lois Jircitano Chapter 13: Refugees, Life in Host Communities, and Health Challenges - Julia McDaniel, Andrea Shaw, & Jok Madut Jok Chapter 14: Gender and Health - Humayra Mayat, Mariel Rivera, & Sandra D. Lane Chapter 15: A Public Health Approach to Loneliness and Isolation among Older Adults - Thomas Prohaska, Roger O′Sullican, Gerard Leavey, & Annette Burns Chapter 16: Mental Illness, the Global Landscape of Stigma, and the Power of Social Relationships - Bernice Pescosolido & Bianca N. Manago Chapter 17: From Ableism to Amplitude: A celebration of dis/ability - Norah A. Schwartz Chapter 18: Social and Geo-Political Factors Influencing Trends in Substance Use - Dessa Bergen-Cico, David Otiashvili, Irma Kirtadze, & Jay Jeong Hyun Park Part 3: Health Care Systems, Access and Use Chapter 19: Comparative Health Systems: Paradigm Changes - Cecilia Vindrola-Padros & Linda Whiteford Chapter 20: Health Service Utilization and Barriers to Health Care - Lutchmie Narine & Ambika Krishnakumar Chapter 21: Measuring Health and Health Related Quality of Life - Manu Raj Mathur Chapter 22: Lay Participation in Healthcare Policy, Planning and Practice: To What End? - Deena White Chapter 23: Complementary and Integrative Health & Medicine (CIHM) Practices and Systems - Elizabeth A. Goldblatt & Stacey Gomes Chapter 24: Childbirth, Midwifery, and Obstetrics: Global Issues in Maternity Care - Robbie Davis-Floyd & Ibu Robin Lim Chapter 25: Medicalization and Pharmaceuticalisation: A Conceptual Analysis - Tom Douglass & Michael Calnan Chapter 26: Digital Health: An Important Public Health Tool - Lina Williatte-Pellitteri, Nesrine Benyahia, Thierry Moulin, & Nicolas Giraudeau Chapter 27: Health Behaviors and Social Media - Bhavneet Walia & Christopher Boudreaux Part 4: Health in Environmental and Planetary Context Chapter 28: The Ecological Paradox: Health and Environment in the 21st Century - Daniel Hryhorczuk & Alex Hryhorczuk Chapter 29: Connecting Human Health to Nature Health: The Bridging Potential of Sustainable Food Systems - Stephan Rist & Theresa Tribaldos Chapter 30: Syndemics and Structural Violence - Merrill Singer & Barbara Rylko-Bauer Chapter 31: Disasters and Health - Robert A. Rubinstein Chapter 32: Occupational Health in the 21st Century - Lorraine M. Conroy & Linda Forst Chapter 33: Economics and Health Policy in the Context of the SDG 2030 Agenda - From idea to action - Jesús Gómez Rossi & Falk Schwendicke Chapter 34: The Social Determinants of Lifelong Learning - Julian Fisher, Patricia Cuff, Ian Couper, Klaus von Pressentin, Roger Strasser, Lionel Green-Thompson, & Aparna Roy