Care for Major Health Problems and Population Health Concerns: Impacts on Patients, Providers and Policy -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Section 1: Introduction to Issues of Population Health and Major Health Problems -- Chapter 1. Population health concerns and major health problems: An introduction to the topic and the volume -- Introduction to population health -- Sociological discussions of population health and the importance of social class -- Population health concerns and newer research articles -- Review of the other sections and selections in this volume -- References -- Section 2: Chronic Health Problems -- Chapter 2. How and why the motivation and skill to self-manage coronary heart disease are socially unequal -- Introduction -- Inequalities in health -- Inequalities in managing chronic illness -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Functional ability and disability among older adults with arthritis: The impact of age, duration of arthritis, and severity of arthritis -- Introduction -- Background -- Data and methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Weight loss surgery patients' negotiations of medicine's institutional logic -- Introduction -- Theoretical considerations -- Methods -- Developing an ideal patient archetype -- Patients' negotiations of the ideal archetype -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Section 3: Women and Specialized Health Problems -- Chapter 5. From the patient's point of view: Practitioner interaction styles in the treatment of women with chronic STDs -- Intersections of morality and medicine -- Socio-historical perspectives on STDs -- Sexual health interactions: Stigmatized crossroads -- Models of practitioner-patient interaction styles.

The importance of studying patients' perceptions of practitioner-patient interactions -- Setting and method -- Practitioner interaction styles -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 6. ''I'm Still Here'': a 10 year follow-up of women's experiences living with HIV -- Introduction -- Background -- Methods -- Results -- Discussionsolconclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section 4: Mental Health -- Chapter 7. Physicians as advocates for their patients: Depression treatment in primary care -- Introduction -- Physicians as street-level bureaucrats -- Research objectives -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix. Interview questions -- Chapter 8. Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans: results from the national Latino and Asian American study -- Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans -- Social support, Asian Americans and mental health services -- Research methods -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section 5: Broader Considerations about Population Health in Specialized Populations and Across Countries -- Chapter 9. ''Falling through the cracks'': health care needs of the older homeless population and their implications -- Background on aging and homelessness -- Methods -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Chapter 10. The urbanization of poverty and urban slum prevalence: The impact of the built environment on population-level patterns of social well-being in the less developed countries -- Introduction -- The ascendance of urban slums in the developing world: An overview -- Urban social organization in the developing countries: Examining the conundrum -- Dependency relations and the proliferation of urban slums in the developing countries.

Implications of urban slum prevalence for population-level health concerns -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11. Unsettled borders of care: medical tourism as a new dimension in america's health care crisis -- Notes -- References.