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The social health of the nation : how America is really doing / Marc Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Miringoff ; contributing author Sandra Opdycke.
- Title
- The social health of the nation : how America is really doing / Marc Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Miringoff ; contributing author Sandra Opdycke.
- Author
- Miringoff, Marc L.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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- Description
- xiv, 245 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This book offers a new view of the nation's social well-being by presenting reliable information on such factors as the accessibility of health care and health insurance coverage, the quality of education, the adequacy of housing and family income, drug abuse, poverty among the elderly or children, life expectancy and infant mortality, crime, and on how America compares with other industrial countries in these and other significant areas.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- graph.
- graphique.
- gráfico.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Seeking the social side of the portrait. How are we doing? -- Part of a tradition -- Framing a social health perspective for the nation. There's something else out there -- Indicators of improving performance -- Indicators of worsening performance -- Indicators of shifting performance -- Judging the nation's social performance -- Pursuing a practical vision. Advancing the field -- The tasks of visibility: a new direction for social reporting.
- ISBN
- 019513348X
- LCCN
- ^^^99230995^
- OCLC
- 41643404
- SCSB-10033748
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library