Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health Populations

ISBN-13: 9780202304908 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 401 str.

Robert G. Evans; Theodore Marmor; Morris Barer

Opis

Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed the links between social hierarchy, the "macroenvironmental" factors in illness patterns, the quality of the "microenvironmental," and other determinants of health. In its aggregate, this volume will prove essential to an understanding of the underlying public health issues for the next several decades.

Spis treści

PART I 1 Introduction 2 Producing Health, Consuming Health Care PART II 3 Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health 4 The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease 5 The Role of Genetics in Population Health 6 If Not Genetics, Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health 7 Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective PART III 8 The Determinants of a Population's Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation's Health Status? 9 Small Area Variations, Practice Style, and Quality of Care 10 Regulating Limits to Medicine: Towards Harmony in Public- and Self-Regulation PART IV 11 Social Proprioception: Measurement, Data, and Information from a Population Health Perspective 12 The Future:Hygeia versus Panakeia?

O autorze

Barer, Morris