Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st CenturyDavid Blane, Eric Brunner, Richard Wilkinson Routledge, 11/09/2002 - 344 من الصفحات There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic growth, income distribution, consumption, work oganisation, unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, education and deprivation, and they are all aspects of 'social organisation'. In ^Health and Social Organisation leading British and North American researchers who bring together an invaluable collection of data on these issues, draw from the social sciences, epidemiology and biology. |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... evidence that health inequalities were not diminishing with the decline in absolute poverty brought about by economic growth. Widening occupational differences in mortality were documented in Britain by the Black Report and have since ...
... evidence that health inequalities were not diminishing with the decline in absolute poverty brought about by economic growth. Widening occupational differences in mortality were documented in Britain by the Black Report and have since ...
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... evidence that mortality differentials have widened in periods when relative poverty has increased, and narrowed when relative poverty has diminished (Wilkinson 1989). It is instructive to compare the United States and Canada in the ...
... evidence that mortality differentials have widened in periods when relative poverty has increased, and narrowed when relative poverty has diminished (Wilkinson 1989). It is instructive to compare the United States and Canada in the ...
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... evidence suggests that it may take exceptional circumstance to gain any substantial increase in equity. The World Bank argues that the effects of American occupation after the war, crises of legitimacy, and threats from communist rivals ...
... evidence suggests that it may take exceptional circumstance to gain any substantial increase in equity. The World Bank argues that the effects of American occupation after the war, crises of legitimacy, and threats from communist rivals ...
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... evidence from both time series and cross-sectional studies that greater equity is associated with faster economic growth (Persson et al. 1994). All eight of the high-performing Asian economies reduced their income differences between ...
... evidence from both time series and cross-sectional studies that greater equity is associated with faster economic growth (Persson et al. 1994). All eight of the high-performing Asian economies reduced their income differences between ...
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To prevent disease The need for a new approach | 21 |
The significance of socioeconomic factors in health for medical care and the National Health Service | 32 |
The social pattern of health and disease | 42 |
Environment and economic growth | 69 |
Social determinants of health The sociobiological translation | 71 |
Whats been said and whats been hid Population health global consumption and the role of national health data systems | 94 |
Education social circumstances and mortality | 171 |
Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course | 188 |
Unpaid work carers and health | 204 |
Work and the labour market | 233 |
Work and health Implications for individuals and society | 235 |
Health and work insecurity in young men | 255 |
The social and biological basis of cardiovascular disease in office workers | 272 |
Policy integration | 301 |
How can secular improvements in life expectancy be explained? | 109 |
The family and life course | 123 |
Patterns of attachment interpersonal relationships and health | 125 |
Family and education as determinants of health | 152 |
Health and social capital | 303 |
Index | 313 |
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