Stephen J. Kunitz

Regional Cultures and Mortality in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how state government policies and their historic beginnings have present-day effects on their residents' political lives and on population health, especially for marginalized groups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781107079632
• ISBN-10: 1107079632
• Artikelnr.: 41608548

Autorenporträt

Stephen J. Kunitz is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Much of his past research has been focused on the Navajos in the American Southwest. He is the author of Disease Change and the Role of Medicine: The Navajo Experience (1983); as well as co-author, with J. E. Levy, of Indian Drinking: Navajo Practices and Anglo-American Theories (1974); Navajo Aging: The Transition from Family to Institutional Support (1991); Drinking Careers: A Twenty-Five Year Follow-Up of Three Navajo Populations (1994); and Drinking, Conduct Disorder, and Social Change: Navajo Experiences (2000). He is also the author of Disease and Social Diversity (1994) and The Health of Populations (2007). He held a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigator Award in 2002-6 and is the recipient of two Fulbright awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The National Perspective: 1. Institutions, income, and mortality in the United States
2. Institutions and the mortality of African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians
3. Regional patterns of urban African American mortality
Part II. Local Studies: 4. Extremes of mortality in the poorest states
5. Regional differences in American Indian mortality
6. Hispanic mortality in New Mexico
7. Conclusion.