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Promoting health : intervention strategies from social and behavioral research / Brian D. Smedley and S. Leonard Syme, editors ; Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine.

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Promoting health : intervention strategies from social and behavioral research / Brian D. Smedley and S. Leonard Syme, editors ; Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press., ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Smedley, Brian D.
  • Syme, S. Leonard (Sherman Leonard), 1932-
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health.
Description
xiv, 493 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Health promotion
  • Social medicine
  • Public health > Social aspects
  • Health Promotion > methods
  • Health Promotion
  • Social Medicine
  • Promotion de la santé
  • Médecine sociale
  • Sociologie de la santé
  • MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine
  • HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living
  • HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference
  • HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism
  • Public health > Social aspects
  • Health promotion
  • Social medicine
Genre/Form
  • Fulltext.
  • Internet Resources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • The contribution of social and behavioral research to an understanding of the distribution of disease: a multilevel approach / George A. Kaplan, Susan A. Everson, and John W. Lynch -- Understanding and reducing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health / James S. House and David R. Williams -- Preconception, prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal influences on health / Carol C. Korenbrot and Nancy E. Moss -- The healthy development of young children: SES disparities, prevention strategies, and policy opportunities / Allison Sidle Fuligni and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Preadolescent and adolescent influences on health / Cheryl L. Perry -- Behavioral and social science contributions to the health of adults in the United States / Karen M. Emmons -- The behavioral and social dynamics of aging well / George L. Maddox -- The role of mass media in creating social capital: a new direction for public health / Lawrence Wallack.
  • Public health and safety in context: lessons from community-level theory on social capital / Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff -- Legal and public policy interventions to advance the population's health / Lawrence O. Gostin -- The need for, and value of, a multi-level approach to disease prevention: the case of tobacco control / Kenneth E. Warner -- Behavioral and psychosocial intervention to modify pathophysiology and disease course / Andrew Baum.
ISBN
  • 0309071755
  • 9780309071758
LCCN
2001274647
OCLC
  • 45993068
  • SCSB-10380770
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library