طردشدگي اجتماعي و رهيافت انتقادي سلامت جمعيت: مطالعۀ موردي سلامت زنان در ايران

Social Exclusion and the Critical Approach of Population Health: Case Study of Iranian Women

The critical approach of population health is considered as one of the recent interdisciplinary approaches in the demography and sociology of health and medicine which criticizes the conventional perspectives of health. This emerging approach emphasizes on the role and effect of the power, social inequality and social exclusion in order to explain the population health. The critical approach of health population has been deeply inspired and influenced by the Jurgen Habermass and Michael Foucault in their analysis of socio-economic forces affecting health. This paper, at the outset makes a brief review on the conventional perspectives on population health; then, it points out to the recent evidences dealing with the theoretical and methodological turns towards the critical approach of population health, its relation with social exclusion, and the main principles and implications of this new approach. Finally, the paper particularly focuses on some evidences concerning to health/diseases among Iranian women and analyze their causes based on critical approach of population health.