Successful societies : how institutions and culture affect health / / edited by Peter A. Hall, Michèle Lamont [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetto topico: Social medicine; Medical policy
• Classificazione: 44.06
• Persona (resp. second.): HallPeter A. <1950->; LamontMichèle <1957->
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Population health and the dynamics of collective development / Clyde Hertzman, Arjumand Siddiqi -- Social interactions in human development: pathways to health and capabilities / Daniel P. Keating -- Health, social relations, and public policy / Peter A. Hall, Rosemary C. R. Taylor -- Population health and development : an institutional-cultural approach to capability expansion / Peter Evans -- Responding to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : culture, institutions, and health / Ann Swidler -- Responses to racism, health, and social inclusion as a dimension of successful societies / Michèle Lamont -- Collective imaginaries and population health : how health data can highlight cultural history / Gérard Bouchard -- Making sense of contagion : citizenship regimes and public health in Victorian England / Jane Jenson -- The multicultural welfare state? / Will Kymlicka -- From state-centrism to neoliberalism : macro-historical contexts of population health since World War II / William H. Sewell, Jr.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why are some societies more successful than others at promoting individual and collective well-being? This book integrates recent research in social epidemiology with broader perspectives in social science to explore why some societies are more successful than others at securing population health. It explores the social roots of health inequalities, arguing that inequalities in health are based not only on economic inequalities, but on the structure of social relations. It develops sophisticated perspectives on social relations, which emphasize the ways in which cultural frameworks as well as institutions condition people's health. It reports on research into health inequalities in the developed and developing worlds, covering a wide range of national case studies, and into the ways in which social relations condition the effectiveness of public policies aimed at improving health.
• Titolo autorizzato: Successful societies
• ISBN: 0-511-69933-6; 1-107-19095-9; 1-282-39355-3; 9786612393556; 0-511-64750-6; 0-511-81619-7; 0-511-60433-5; 0-511-60355-X; 0-511-65158-9; 0-511-60277-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778494303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II