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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... levels at 1 August 1992, by civil service employment grade Employment grade and risk factor status at the Whitehall II baseline Height and coronary risk (a) Mean body mass index in the Whitehall studies (b) Prevalence of obesity in the ...
... levels at 1 August 1992, by civil service employment grade Employment grade and risk factor status at the Whitehall II baseline Height and coronary risk (a) Mean body mass index in the Whitehall studies (b) Prevalence of obesity in the ...
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... level of acculturation among Japanese-Americans (Marmot and Syme 1976). In Britain the 1946 and 1958 birth cohort studies continued to study the impact of a wide range of social and economic variables and the Whitehall study was used ...
... level of acculturation among Japanese-Americans (Marmot and Syme 1976). In Britain the 1946 and 1958 birth cohort studies continued to study the impact of a wide range of social and economic variables and the Whitehall study was used ...
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... levels were found to be higher in the higher employment grades. Fat intake, which is merely one of the determinants of blood cholesterol, therefore did not appear to be part of the explanation of occupational differences in heart ...
... levels were found to be higher in the higher employment grades. Fat intake, which is merely one of the determinants of blood cholesterol, therefore did not appear to be part of the explanation of occupational differences in heart ...
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... level and in France by occupational class. This and other research has demonstrated that health inequalities are not fixed or invariant; they vary substantially over time and between countries. Reports that even in an advanced country ...
... level and in France by occupational class. This and other research has demonstrated that health inequalities are not fixed or invariant; they vary substantially over time and between countries. Reports that even in an advanced country ...
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... Levels of unemployment and the numbers in relative poverty have increased, particularly since the 1970s, and house building programmes have been markedly reduced. More recently, with the development of a 'flexible labour force, job ...
... Levels of unemployment and the numbers in relative poverty have increased, particularly since the 1970s, and house building programmes have been markedly reduced. More recently, with the development of a 'flexible labour force, job ...
المحتوى
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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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adjusted analysis associated attachment Attachment Theory behaviour biological birth weight body mass index Britain British Medical Journal cardiovascular caregiver caring cent central obesity Child Development childhood cholesterol cohort coronary heart disease cortisol countries deprivation determinants of health differences early economic growth educational attainment effects employment grade environment Epidemiology evidence expectancy experience fibrinogen Figure groups health at age health capital health status higher Household Survey ill health impaired glucose tolerance important improve income increased individual infant influence insecurity ischaemic heart disease Journal of Epidemiology levels London Malaise Inventory male Marmot measures non-carers occupational parents patterns physical poor population psychological psychosocial Public Health relationship reported risk factors scores self-reported general health shows sickness absence smoking social capital social class social gradient societies socioeconomic socioeconomic circumstances Sroufe stress Table tion variables well-being Whitehall II study Whitehall study women