Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of health, health care, and the health professions / edited by David Mechanic.

Publication

New York : Free Press, ©1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mechanic, David, 1936-

Description

xxiii, 806 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Abstract: A handbook of health issue essays examines the interdisciplinary requirements of health and health care (prevention and treatment of disease) and provides the reader with insight into the determinants of health and illness. Essay topics are interrelated by the idea that health, disease treatment and rehabilitation of populations occur at biological, psychological and sociocultural levels and involve complex adaptive patterns that epidemiological and clinical studies attempt to describe. Six sections examine: historical and sociocultural dimensions of health and health care; epidemiological studies; health-delivery; health occupations; the health care system from the patient's perspective; and issues and perspectives for approaching health care research. Each of the 34 chapters is written by an expert in his respective area. (kbc).

Subject

• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Medical care > United States
• Social medicine > United States
• Medical policy > United States
• Medical care > Research
• Medical care
• Medical personnel
• National health services
• Social medicine
• Delivery of Health Care
• Health Occupations
• Health Services
• Social Medicine
• Patient Care
• National health services
• Medical personnel
• Medical care
• Medical care > Research
• Medical policy
• Social medicine
• Heilberuf
• Heilhilfsberuf
• Medizinische Versorgung
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Gesundheitsfürsorge
• Gesundheitswesen
• Gezondheidszorg
• Beroepen
• United States

Genre/Form

• Handbook
• handbooks.
• Handbooks and manuals
• Handbooks and manuals.
• Guides et manuels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Disease and environment in American history / Gerald N. Grob -- Society, culture, and health / Mervyn Susser, Kim Hopper, and Judith Richman -- The potential of health promotion / Lester Breslow -- The politics of health / T.R. Marmor and Andrew Dunham with the assistance of Julie Greenberg -- Nutritional patterns, social choices, and health / Beverly Winikoff -- Epidemiology of childhood disease / Robert J. Haggerty -- Epidemiology of ischemic heart disease and cancer / Sam Shapiro -- The epidemiology of mental disorder / Bruse P. Dohrenwend -- Continuities and discontinuities in the psychiatric disorders of children / Lee Robins -- Injury Epidemiology and the reduction of harm / Leon S. Robertson --Environment and disease / Paul W. Brandt-Rauf and I. Bernard Weinstein -- Comparisons in health care: Britain as contrast to the United States / Rosemary Stevens -- The general hospital: a social and historical perspective / Odin W. Anderson and Norman Gevitz -- Health-maintenance organizations / Harold S. Luft -- Nursing homes / Bruce C. Vladeck -- Long-term care: financing and policy issues / Diane Bolay Lawrence and Clifton R. Gaus -- The federal health structure / Gerald Rosenthal -- Does medical care do any good? -- sol Levine, Jacob J. Feldman, and Jack Elinson -- Nurses / Linda H. Aiken -- Physicians / David Mechanic -- Medical and nursing education: surface behavior and deep structure / Donald W. Light -- Allied health resources / Eli Ginzberg -- The evolution in health services management / Walter J. McNearney -- Models of health-related behavior / Marshall H. Becker and Lois A. Maiman -- Popular health care, social networks, and cultural meanings: the orientation of medical anthropology / Noel J. Chrisman and Arthur Kleinman -- The experience and expression of distress: the study of illness behavior and medical utilization / David Mechanic -- Coping and adaptation in health illness / Frances Cohen and Richard S. Lazarus -- Social adaptation of the chronically ill / Margaret Dimond -- A Marxist view of health and health care / Howard Waitzkin -- Social and psychological factors affecting the course of disease: an epidemiological perspective / Stansilav A. Kasl -- Behavioral medicine: psychology in health care / Howard Leventhal -- Health education and health promotion / Lawrence W. Green and Katrina W. Johnson -- Multivariate analysis: basic approaches to health data / Paul D. Cleary.

ISBN

• 0029206901
• 9780029206904

LCCN

• 82071149
• 8803544

OCLC

• ocm08533525
• 8533525
• SCSB-95695

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library