Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9780415130707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 342 str.

David Blane; Eric Brunner; Richard Wilkinson

Opis

There is a growing recognition that the most powerful determinants of health in modern populations are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include economic growth, income distribution, consumption, work organization, unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, education and deprivation, and they are all aspects of social organization. In this work, these issues are examined by British and North American researchers. They bring together an array of evidence from the social sciences, epidemiology and biology. The text starts by examining the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches to improving the population's health. It then considers the timing of major influences on health and questions whether there are special periods of vulnerability early in life or whether circumstances throughout life are equally important. The final section draws out the implications for policy and for links between health and economic performance, emphasising the need for greater investment to combat the low educational standards and high and poor economic performance.

Recenzje

'An impressively broad array of superb evidence illustrating the wide variety of "social" influences on numerous aspects of health and illness.' - British Medical Journal

'This volume is refreshing as a text which puts health - rather than medical services or the NHS - at the heart of heath policy...offers a wealth of data and a sophisticated level of debate.' - Sociology of Health and Illness

'A useful and timely book...strongly recommended as a contemporary source in the subject.' - Journal of Public Health Medicine

O autorze

Blane, David; Brunner, Eric; Wilkinson, Richard