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Health and social organization : towards a health policy for the twenty-first century
- 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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- Description
- xvi, 326 pages : illustrations
- Summary
- There is a growing recognition that the most powerful determinants of health in modern populations are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: economic growth, income distribution, consumption, work organization , unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, education and deprivation, and they are all aspects of 'social organization'. In Health and Social Organization these issues are examined by leading British and North American researchers. They bring together an array of evidence from the social sciences, epidemiology and biology. Medical services and health-damaging behaviour have been the main concerns of public health policy and interventions in recent decades. Health and Social Organization starts by briefly examining the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches to improving the population's health. Most of the contributions, however, focus on a particular aspect of social organization and its relationship to health.
- Subject
- Social medicine > Great Britain
- Social medicine
- Medical policy
- World health
- Health behavior
- Health Policy
- Global Health
- Health Behavior
- Health Status
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Social Medicine
- World health
- Medical policy
- Health behavior
- Social medicine
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Gesundheit
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Sozioökonomisches System
- Gezondheidszorg
- Overheidsbeleid
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Statistics
- Statistics.
- Statistiques.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. The evolution of public health policy: an anglocentric view of the last fifty years -- 2. To prevent disease: the need for a new approach -- 3. The significance of socioeconomic factors in health for medical care and the National Health Service -- 4. The social pattern of health and disease -- 5. Social determinants of health: the sociobiological translation -- 6. What's been said and what's been hid: population health, global consumption and the role of national health data systems -- 7. How can secular improvements in life expectancy be explained? -- 8. Patterns of attachment, interpersonal relationships and health -- 9. Family and education as determinants of health -- 10. Education, social circumstances and mortality -- 11. Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course -- 12. Unpaid work, carers and health -- 13. Work and health: implications for individuals and society -- 14. Health and work insecurity in young men -- 15. The social and biological basis of cardiovascular disease in office workers -- 16. Health and social capital -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780415130691
- 0415130697
- 9780415130707
- 0415130700
- 9780203434932
- 0203434935
- LCCN
- 96222385
- OCLC
- ocm35765059
- 35765059
- SCSB-381426
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library