Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the Twenty-first Century

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David Blane, Eric Brunner, Richard G. Wilkinson
Psychology Press, 1996 - 326 من الصفحات
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.

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the need for a new approach 21
21
The significance of socioeconomic factors in health
32
The social pattern of health and disease
42
the sociobiological translation
71
population health
94
How can secular improvements in life expectancy
109
Patterns of attachment interpersonal relationships
125
Family and education as determinants of health
152
Education social circumstances and mortality
171
Transmission of social and biological risk across the life
188
Unpaid work carers and health
204
implications for individuals and society
235
Health and work insecurity in young men
255
The social and biological basis of cardiovascular disease
272
Health and social capital
303
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Blane, David; Brunner, Eric; Wilkinson, Richard

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