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The social health of the nation : how America is really doing
- 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 pages : illustrations; 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
- 1980-2020
- Social indicators > United States
- Social ecology
- Social history
- Social Environment
- Social Conditions
- human ecology
- social history
- 71.60 social problems and social conflicts: general
- Social history
- Social ecology
- Social conditions
- Social indicators
- Sozialer Indikator
- Sozialstruktur
- Public Health
- Kwaliteit van het bestaan
- social conditions
- trend
- children
- mortality
- dropout
- older people
- poverty
- life expectancy
- violence
- youth
- health insurance
- wages
- income distribution
- crime
- drug abuse
- accident
- housing
- unemployment
- statistical table
- Économie du bien-être
- Économie publique > États-Unis
- Indicateurs sociaux > États-Unis
- conditions sociales
- tendance
- enfants
- mortalité
- abandon des études
- personnes âgées
- pauvreté
- espérance de vie
- jeunesse
- assurance-maladie
- salaire
- répartition du revenu
- criminalité
- abus des drogues
- logement
- chômage
- tableau statistique
- condiciones sociales
- tendencia
- niños
- mortalidad
- abandono de estudios
- personas de edad avanzada
- pobreza
- esperanza de vida
- violencia
- juventud
- seguro de enfermedad
- salario
- distribución del ingreso
- delito
- uso indebido de drogas
- accidente
- vivienda
- desempleo
- cuadros estadísticos
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
- United States
- USA
- USA
- États-Unis > Conditions sociales
- Etats-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1980- ..
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- 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
- 9780195133486
- 0195133498
- 9780195133493
- 9786610530793
- 6610530793
- LCCN
- 99230995
- OCLC
- ocm41643404
- 41643404
- SCSB-8969630
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library