Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Table of Contents.- Editor Bio.- The Social Determinants of Health and Trends Concerning Health Disparity.- Behavioral Problems in Children.- Metabolic Syndorome.- Cancer and Socioeconomic Status.- Coronary Heart Disease.- Stroke.- Chronic kidney disease.- Diabetes Mellitus.- Suicide.- Depression.- Dementia.- Falls and Related Bone Fractures.- Malnutrition in Older People.- Oral Health.- Healthy aging:IADL and functional disability.- Life Course Epidemiology.- Social capital and health.- Access to Healthcare and Health Inequality.- Measures of Health Inequality and Health Impact Assessment.- What Measures Can Be Taken to Reduce Health Disparity?.- Recommendations.- Ministeral notification.- Monitoring report (1).- Monitoring Report (3).- Monitoring Report (5).- Monitoring Report (8).- Index.

Katsunori Kondo is Professor of Social Epidemiology and Health Policy, Center for Preventive Medical Sciences and the Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan. He is also the Head of Department of Gerontological Evaluation at the Center for Gerontology and Social Science, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology. He is the Principal Investigator of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES) Project, which is one of the first prospective cohort studies to investigate the influence of social determinants of health and community social capital on health outcomes among older people. He is the author of the bestselling book, Health Gap Society-What is Undermining Mind and Health? Igaku-Shoin, 2005, which was awarded in 2006 by The Society for the Study of Social Policy. Dr. Kondo also wrote Beyond 'Healthcare Crisis'-Future of Health and Long-Term Care in the UK and Japan, Igaku-Shoin, 2012; Prescriptions for Health Gap Society, Igaku-Shoin, 2017; and edited and wrote Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of the Older People, Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne, 2010; and Social Determinants of Health-Reviews of 'Health Disparities' in Non-Communicable Diseases, Japan Public Health Association, 2013.