Promoting health [[electronic resource] ] : intervention strategies from social and behavioral research / / Brian D. Smedley and S. Leonard Syme, editors ; Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778612503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Pr., c2000
• ISBN: 0-309-13291-6; 1-280-18531-7; 9786610185313; 0-309-56973-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (507 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SmedleyBrian D; SymeS. Leonard <1932-> (Sherman Leonard)
• Disciplina: 613
• Soggetti: Health promotion; Social medicine; Public health - Social aspects
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Promoting Health""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""REVIEWERS""; ""Contents""; ""Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""A Social Environmental Approach to Health and Health Interventions""; ""Summary of Findings and Recommendations""; ""FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Overarching Recommendations""; ""Addressing Generic Determinants of Health""; ""Intervention at Multiple Levels""; ""Promising Intervention Strategies""; ""Defining Promising Interventions""; ""Interventions Directed at the Social Context""""Understanding and Reducing Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Health""; ""Opportunities for Intervention Across the Life Span""; ""Research Needs""; ""Research on Physiologic Pathways""; ""Research on Pregnancy""; ""Research on Interventions in Infancy and Early ; Childhood""; ""Research on Health Resources and Strengths of Low Socioeconomic and Ethnic Minority Groups""; ""Research on Social Contexts and Social Capital""; ""Research on Legal and Regulatory Interventions""; ""Research Methodologies""; ""Cost-Effectiveness Analyses""""Community as Partners""; ""Funding""; ""Need for Health Care Funding to Place Greater Emphasis on Prevention""; ""Need for Interdisciplinary Collaboration""; ""Refocusing of Research Efforts to Address Fundamental Determinants of Health""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PAPER CONTRIBUTION A The Contribution of Social and Behavioral Research to an Understanding of the Distribution of Disease""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Life Expectancy and Death Rates from All Causes""; ""UNDERSTANDING VARIATIONS IN HEALTH""; ""THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE-SOME ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES""""Low Birthweight""; ""Overall""; ""Distribution by Race and Socioeconomic Position""; ""Trends""; ""Geographic Distribution""; ""Costs""; ""Childhood Asthma""; ""Overall""; ""Distribution by Race and Socioeconomic Position""; ""Trends""; ""Geographic Distribution""; ""Costs""; ""Firearm-Related Deaths Among Youth and Young Adults""; ""Overall""; ""Distribution by Race and Sex""; ""Distribution by Socioeconomic Position""; ""Trends""; ""Geographic Variation""; ""Costs""; ""Cardiovascular Disease in Adults""; ""Overall""; ""Distribution by Race and Sex""""Distribution by Socioeconomic Position""; ""Geographic Variation""; ""Trends""; ""Costs""; ""Overall Breast Cancer""; ""Overall""; ""Distribution by Race and Socioeconomic Position""; ""Trends""; ""Geographic Variation""; ""Costs""; ""Osteoporosis""; ""Overall""; ""Distribution by Race and Sex""; ""Distribution by Socioeconomic Position""; ""Trends""; ""Geographic Variation""; ""Cost""; ""MAKING SENSE OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE AND ITS DETERMINANTS""; ""Economic and Social Policies""; ""Institutions""; ""Neighborhoods, Communities, and Living Conditions""; ""Social Relationships""