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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... countries regardless of the public-private split. The most important factor pointing to the preventive potential of social and economic policy has been a growing recognition of the scale and causes of social inequalities in health ...
... countries regardless of the public-private split. The most important factor pointing to the preventive potential of social and economic policy has been a growing recognition of the scale and causes of social inequalities in health ...
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... countries. Reports that even in an advanced country like Britain there are now two-, three- or even fourfold differences in mortality between social groups are evidence of a problem which demands attention. Such health differences are ...
... countries. Reports that even in an advanced country like Britain there are now two-, three- or even fourfold differences in mortality between social groups are evidence of a problem which demands attention. Such health differences are ...
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... countries has shifted towards the degenerative diseases, where medical science remains less competent. Relationships between medical care and measures of population health are hard to find. Even among the small proportion of modern ...
... countries has shifted towards the degenerative diseases, where medical science remains less competent. Relationships between medical care and measures of population health are hard to find. Even among the small proportion of modern ...
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... country. 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 ...
... country. 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 ...
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... countries, particularly New Zealand, Britain and the United States. The income gap between the high-paid and low-paid widened rapidly and the rate of divergence in Britain has been surpassed only by that in New Zealand (Joseph Rowntree ...
... countries, particularly New Zealand, Britain and the United States. The income gap between the high-paid and low-paid widened rapidly and the rate of divergence in Britain has been surpassed only by that in New Zealand (Joseph Rowntree ...
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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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