Mildred Blaxter

Health and Lifestyles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What fosters a 'healthy' lifestyle? How much responsibility does the individual have for his or her own health? Which is more significant: the social circumstances in which people live, or lifestyle habits such as excercise or smoking? Is health really 'worse' in the north than in the south, and how unequal are the social classes? For the first time it is possible to attempt to answer some of these questions, based on a national survey which was conducted by an interdisciplinary team at the University of Cambridge Clinical School. Health and Lifestyles examines the findings, and considers such issues as measured fitness, declared health, psychological status, life circumstances, health-related behaviour, attitudes, and beliefs. Interesting conclusions are presented. Social circumstances, for example, are more important than lifestyle habits. Moreover, lifestyle may have more effect among the more privileged, than the disadvantaged.

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 138mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415001472
• ISBN-10: 0415001471
• Artikelnr.: 21064184

Autorenporträt

Mildred Blaxter

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The health and lifestyle survey 3. What is health? 4.
The measurement of health 5. Social circumstances and health 6. Patterns of
behaviour 7. Attitudes and behaviour 8. Behaviour and health 9.
Circumstances behaviour and health 10. Conclusions and policy implications
Appendix