Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st CenturyThere 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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In 1948 almost 80 per cent of the country's hospital beds were provided by municipal hospitals run by local government (Webster 1988). These hospitals had developed out of the provision made by the Poor Law Boards of Guardians to ...
In 1948 almost 80 per cent of the country's hospital beds were provided by municipal hospitals run by local government (Webster 1988). These hospitals had developed out of the provision made by the Poor Law Boards of Guardians to ...
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He concluded that if Framingham men were to modify their diet enough to reduce their cholesterol levels by 10 per cent up to the age of 55, forty-nine out of fifty would eat differently every day for forty years without having avoided a ...
He concluded that if Framingham men were to modify their diet enough to reduce their cholesterol levels by 10 per cent up to the age of 55, forty-nine out of fifty would eat differently every day for forty years without having avoided a ...
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Moreover the incomes of the poorest 76 per cent of Canadians were higher than those of their American counterparts, whilst those of the richest 24 per cent were lower (Wolfson 1995). During the post-war period, life expectancy changes ...
Moreover the incomes of the poorest 76 per cent of Canadians were higher than those of their American counterparts, whilst those of the richest 24 per cent were lower (Wolfson 1995). During the post-war period, life expectancy changes ...
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Between 1977 and 1992 top wages in Britain grew by 50 per cent and median wages by 35 per cent, but low wages ended the period lower in real terms than in 1975.
Between 1977 and 1992 top wages in Britain grew by 50 per cent and median wages by 35 per cent, but low wages ended the period lower in real terms than in 1975.
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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