| Description |
xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Social institutions and social change |
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Social institutions and social change.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / R. G. Evans -- 2. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care / R. G. Evans and G. L. Stoddart -- 3. Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health / C. Hertzman, J. Frank and R. G. Evans -- 4. The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease / E. Corin -- 5. The Role of Genetics in Population Health / P. A. Baird -- 6. If Not Genetics, Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health / R. G. Evans, M. Hodge and I. B. Pless -- 7. Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective / M. G. Marmot and J. F. Mustard -- 8. The Determinants of a Population's Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation's Health Status? / T. R. Marmor, M. L. Barer and R. G. Evans -- 9. Small Area Variations, Practice Style, and Quality of Care / N. P. Roos and L. L. Roos -- 10. Regulating Limits to Medicine: Towards Harmony in Public- and Self-Regulation / J. Lomas and A.-P. Contandriopoulos |
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11. Social Proprioception: Measurement, Data, and Information from a Population Health Perspective / M. C. Wolfson -- 12. The Future: Hygeia versus Panakeia? / M. Renaud |
| Summary |
"Since the mid-1970s, the ancient view that the determinants of health go well beyond medical care has reemerged in most western democracies. Yet despite nearly two decades of repeated intellectual efforts to redirect health policy away from curative medicine to more fundamental interventions, the task remains largely undone. The purpose of this volume is to ask why, and to suggest answers and evidence about the determinants of population health that may help redirect national health policies." "The book provides a conceptual framework that permits the integration of evidence arising from a diverse range of disciplines. In particular, it highlights observations that have heretofore been difficult to explain within traditional clinical or health-promotion understandings of what makes some populations healthier than others. Individual chapters explore the role of factors as diverse as culture, genetic predisposition, biological pathways, and social and economic environments. Other chapters discuss how to convert this deepened understanding into changes in health policy." "This unusual volume is, in every sense, a collaborative effort, the culmination of several years' interaction among the members of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (C.I.A.R.). While each chapter has one or more members of this group as designated authors, all chapters reflect the influence of the collaboration, as well as of the distinguished C.I.A.R. colleagues from many disciplines with whom members have interacted since the group's inception in 1987."--BOOK JACKET.0 |
| Analysis |
Environmental health |
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Medical policy |
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Public health |
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Social medicine |
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Environmental health |
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Medical policy |
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Public health |
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Social medicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-368) and index |
| Subject |
Environmental health.
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Epidemiology.
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Public health.
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Medical policy.
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Social medicine.
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Public Health.
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Environmental Health.
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Health Policy.
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Social Medicine.
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| Author |
Barer, M. L.
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Evans, Robert G., 1942-
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Marmor, Theodore R.
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| LC no. |
94016155 |
| ISBN |
0202304892 |
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0202304906 (paperback) |
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