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Title Health and social organization : towards a health policy for the twenty-first century / edited by David Blane, Eric Brunner and Richard Wilkinson.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents The evolution of public health policy: An anglocentric view of the last fifty years / DavidBlane, Eric Brunner, and Richard Wilkinson -- To prevent disease: The need for a new approach / Leonard Syme -- The significance of socioeconomic factors in health for medical care and the National Health Service / Mildred Blaxter -- The social pattern of health and disease / Michael Marmot -- Social determinants of health: The sociobiological translation / Alvin R. Tarlov -- What's been said and what's been hid: Population health, global consumption and the role of national health data systems / Clyde Hertzman -- How can secular Improvements in life expectancy be explained? / Richard Wilkinson -- Patterns of attachment, interpersonal relationships and health / Peter Fonagy -- Family and education as determinants of health / Michael Wadsworth -- Education, social circumstances and mortality / David Blane, Ian White, and Jerry Morris -- Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course / Chris Power, Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith, and David Blane -- Unpaid work, carers and health / Maria Evandrou -- Work and health: Implications for individuals and society / Michael Marmot and Amanda Feeney -- Health and work insecurity in young men / Mel Bartley, Scott Montgomery, Derek Cook, and Michaela Wadsworth, -- The social and biological basis of cardiovascular disease in office workers / Eric Brunner -- Health and social capital / Mustard, J. Fraser.
Summary Leading British and North American researchers show that determinants of health are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. Examines recent public health policy as well as focusing on social organization issues.
Local Note EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject Social medicine -- Great Britain.
Social medicine.
Health Policy.
Global Health.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Health Status.
Health Behavior.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Statistics.
Added Author Blane, David, editor.
Brunner, Eric, editor.
Wilkinson, Richard G., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Health and social organization. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 0415130697 (DLC) 96222385 (OCoLC)35765059
ISBN 0203434935 (electronic book)
9780203434932 (electronic book)
9790203743170 (Adobe eReader Format)
0415130697 (hardback)
9780415130691 (hardback)
0415130700 (paperback)
9780415130707 (paperback)
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