Bücher von Vicente Navarro

Carles Muntaner , M.D., Ph.D., is a professor in the Faculty of Nursing, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Since the 1990s, he has conducted research on social inequalities in health in the United States, European Union, Latin America, and Western Africa, integrating the public health fields of occupational health and social epidemiology. Originally from Barcelona, Muntaner studied at the LycUe Franyais, University of Barcelona, Spain and Johns Hopkins University, USA. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Socio-Environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health, in the United States. His research focuses on the study of work organization in relation to psychiatric disorders, the conceptualization and measurement of social class and racism, comparative politics, welfare states, labor markets, precarious employment and health, and philosophy of epidemiology. Muntaner has worked with the World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, U.S. and Spanish unions, and the Ministries of Health of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Chile. Dr. Muntaner was co-chair of the Employment Conditions Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health and a founding member of GREDS/EMCONET at the Pompeu Fabra University. He is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Health Services . He is the recipient of the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the American Public Health Association. He is a member of GREDS/EMCONET at the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. Vicente Navarro was born in Barcelona, Spain. He received his M.D. from the University of Barcelona in 1962, and left Spain for political reasons due to his active participation in the Spanish anti-fascist underground. He studied political economy at the London School of Economics and health administration at Edinburgh University, UK. He received his doctorate in public policy from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is Professor of Health and Social Policy at the Johns Hopkins University and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Health Services . In Spain, he is Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona and Professor of Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. He directs the Public and Social Policy Program jointly sponsored by the Pompeu Fabra University and the Johns Hopkins University.