1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910172251903321

Titolo

Health and social organization : towards a health policy for the twenty-first century / / edited by David Blane, Eric Brunner and Richard Wilkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-79110-0

1-134-79111-9

1-280-31924-0

0-203-43493-5

9786610319244

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlaneDavid

BrunnerEric

WilkinsonRichard G

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Social medicine - Great Britain

Social medicine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Preface; The evolution of public health policy: an anglocentric view of the last fifty years; To prevent disease: the need for a new approach; The significance of socioeconomic factors in health for medical care and the National Health Service; The social pattern of health and disease; Social determinants of health: the sociobiological translation; What's been said and what's been hid: population health, global consumption and the role of national health data systems

How can secular improvements in life expectancy beexplained?Patterns of attachment, interpersonal relationships and health; Family and education as determinants of health; Education, social circumstances and mortality; Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course; Unpaid work, carers and health; Work and health: implications for individuals and society; Health and work insecurity in young men;



The social and biological basis of cardiovascular d

Sommario/riassunto

Leading British and North American researchers show that determinants of health are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. Examines recent public health policy as well as focusing on social organization issues.