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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454332503321

Titolo

Settings and issues [[electronic resource] ] : determinants of health / / papers commissioned by the National Forum on Health

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sainte-Foy, Québec, : Éditions MultiMondes : , : National Forum on Health, c1998

ISBN

2-89544-210-X

1-4356-9891-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (632 p.)

Collana

Canada Health Action: Building on the Legacy ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

362.10971

Soggetti

Public health - Canada

Medicine, Preventive - Canada

Children - Health and hygiene - Canada

Adulthood - Health and hygiene - Canada

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 at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""First Cover""; ""Foreword""; ""Table of contents""; ""Settings""; ""Toward Healthy Families""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Healthy Families and Health Determinants: Key Conclusions from the research Literature""; ""Definitional Conundrums and Old Reruns""; ""The Triple Helix Framework of Healthy Families""; ""Genetic Inheritance/Predisposition and Family""; ""Life Chances: Surviving and Thriving""; ""Social Resources and Healthy Families""; ""Social Support: The BIG Effect""; ""Access to Health through Family""; ""Chains, Effects, and Amplification""

""Policies, Programs, Projects, and Natural Experiments: Lessons on What Works and What Does not""""Summary of Success Stories""; ""Families as Actors as Well as Subjects: Lessons from History""; ""Families and Children “at Promise�""; ""Family Matters and the Family Matters Program""; ""Brighter Futures and Running in Place""; ""Miracle at Duke and Water""; ""Beyond Health Promotion: Is Family and Community ActionEnough?""; ""Policy Implications�Principles to Guide Government Action""; ""Policy Implications""; ""Principles to Guide



Government Action for Healthy Families""

""Strategic Targets That Require Policy Action""""Bibliography""; ""Schools, Mental Health and Life Quality""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Objectives""; ""School Efects on Student Outcomes""; ""Definitions�Cognitive and Noncognitive Domains of Child Functioning""; ""Relationship between Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes""; ""The Importance of Prevention""; ""Research Design Isues""; ""Study Design""; ""Choice of Student Outcomes and School Variables""; ""Sample of Schools Studied""; ""School Effects Defined as Progress over Time""; ""School Effects Studies""; ""Overview""

""Effective Schools Model""""Review of Exemplary Studies""; ""Key Conclusions""; ""Stories and Lessons Learned""; ""Criteria for Selection of Stories""; ""Story Descriptors""; ""Five Stories""; ""Lessons Learned""; ""Policy Implications""; ""Principles to Guide the Actions of Governments�“Elements of Best Practice�""; ""The School Improvement Cycle""; ""Facilitating Factors and Barriers to Change""; ""The Role of Evaluation in Policy and Practice""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Creating Healthier Work Environments: A Critical Review of the Health Impacts of Workplace Change""

""Table of Contents""""Context: the changing work environment and workers� health""; ""Workplace determinants of health""; ""Individual Lifestyle Factors""; ""Job Factors""; ""Organizational Factors at Unit or Firm Level""; ""External (Community, Regional, National, and Global) Influences""; ""The impact of efforts to improve workers� health""; ""Occupational Health and Safety""; ""Workplace Health Promotion""; ""Organizational Change""; ""Selection of case studies""; ""Description of Group A case studies""; ""Outcomes of Group A case studies""; ""Engstrom et al. (1995)""

""Fiedler et al. (1984)""



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Record Nr.

UNISA990001034450203316

Titolo

Informazioni SVIMEZ

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : SVIMEZ

ISSN

0390-9204

Descrizione fisica

volumi ; 23 cm

Disciplina

388.9457

Soggetti

Italia meridionale - Industrie - Periodici

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico