New horizons in health : an integrative approach / / Committee on Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council ; Burton H. Singer and Carol D. Ryff, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages)
• Disciplina: 613/.0973
• Soggetto topico: Health promotion - United States; Medicine, Preventive - United States; Health planning - United States; Integrated delivery of health care - United States; Health promotion; Health planning; Medical care; Public health; Integrated delivery of health care; National health services; Social control; Health services administration; Primary Prevention; Preventive Health Services; Health Planning; Health Promotion; Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Altri autori: SingerBurton RyffCarol D
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction. The Context: Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. The Charge to the Committee. The Integrative Approach to Health. Key Influences on Pathways to Health -- ; 2. Predisease Pathways. Cumulative Physiological Risk. Characterizing Predisease Pathways. Connecting Predisease Pathways to Cumulative Physiological Risk -- ; 3. Positive Health: Resilience, Recovery, Primary Prevention, and Health Promotion. Resilience and Resistance to Disease: Who Stays Well and Why? Recovery and Differential Survival Processes. Advancing the Science of Primary Prevention. New Directions in Positive Health Promotion. Positive Health and the Council of Public Representatives -- ; 4. Environmentally Induced Gene Expression. Genes Expression and Prenatal Development. Personal Ties and Gene Expression in Midlife. Animal Models and the Consequences of Mother-Child Interactions. Intergenerational Transmission of Behavior. Plasticity of Genetic Trajectories.
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation ǂb Brings together a committee of 15 scientists with backgrounds in the biomedical, social behavioral, and scientific disciplines, who together identify and address a broad set of issues relating to the health of the US population. Themes addressed include predisease pathways, positive health, environmentally induced gene expression, personal ties, collective properties and healthy communities, the influence of inequality on health, population perspectives, interventions, methodology priorities, and research infrastructure. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
• Titolo autorizzato: New horizons in health
• ISBN: 9780309171410; 0309171415; 9780309511544; 0309511542
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961001903321
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