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

• Pubblicazione: Sainte-Foy, Québec, : Éditions MultiMondes : , : National Forum on Health, c1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (632 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10971
• Soggetto topico: Public health - Canada; Medicine, Preventive - Canada; Children - Health and hygiene - Canada; Adulthood - Health and hygiene - Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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 Promiseâ€?""; ""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 Implicationsâ€?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""; ""Definitionsâ€?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 Governmentsâ€?“Elements of Best Practiceâ€?""; ""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 workersâ€? 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 workersâ€? 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)""
• Titolo autorizzato: Settings and issues
• ISBN: 2-89544-210-X; 1-4356-9891-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454332503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II