Research Catalog

Title

Health and social organization : towards a health policy for the twenty-first century / edited by David Blane, Eric Brunner and Richard Wilkinson.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blane, David
• Brunner, Eric
• Wilkinson, Richard G.

Description

xvi, 326 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Socioeconomic Factors
• Health Policy
• Statistics
• Health Status
• Health Behavior
• Global Health
• Social medicine > Great Britain

Genre/Form

Statistics.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. The evolution of public health policy: an anglocentric view of the last fifty years / David Blane, Eric Brunner and Richard Wilkinson -- 2. To prevent disease: the need for a new approach / S. Leonard Syme -- 3. The significance of socioeconomic factors in health for medical care and the National Health Service / Mildred Blaxter -- 4. The social pattern of health and disease / Michael Marmot -- 5. Social determinants of health: the sociobiological translation / Alvin R. Tarlov -- 6. What's been said and what's been hid: population health, global consumption and the role of national health data systems / Clyde Hertzman -- 7. How can secular improvements in life expectancy be explained? / Richard Wilkinson -- 8. Patterns of attachment, interpersonal relationships and health / Peter Fonagy -- 9. Family and education as determinants of health / Michael Wadsworth -- 10. Education, social circumstances and mortality / David Blane, Ian White and Jerry Morris --
• 11. Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course / Chris Power, Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith and David Blane -- 12. Unpaid work, carers and health / Maria Evandrou -- 13. Work and health: implications for individuals and society / Michael Marmot and Amanda Feeney -- 14. Health and work insecurity in young men / Mel Bartley, Scott Montgomery, Derek Cook and Michael Wadsworth -- 15. The social and biological basis of cardiovascular disease in office workers / Eric Brunner -- 16. Health and social capital / J. Fraser Mustard.

ISBN

• 0415130697 (hbk)
• 0415130700 (pbk)

LCCN

96222385

OCLC

• ocm35765059
• SCSB-4782885

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries