Successful Societies

How Institutions and Culture Affect Health
Herausgeber: Hall, Peter A.; Lamont, Michele

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which social relations condition health and the public policies that address it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780521516600
• ISBN-10: 0521516609
• Artikelnr.: 26055938

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Peter A. Hall and Michele Lamont; 1. Population health and the
dynamics of collective development Clyde Hertzman and Arjumand Siddiqi; 2.
Social interactions in human development: pathways to health and
capabilities Daniel P. Keating; 3. Health, social relations and public
policy Peter A. Hall and Rosemary C. R. Taylor; 4. Population health and
development: an institutional-cultural approach to capability expansion
Peter Evans; 5. Responding to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: culture,
institutions, and health Ann Swidler; 6. Responses to racism, health, and
social inclusion as a dimension of successful societies Michele Lamont; 7.
Collective imaginary and population health (how health data can highlight
cultural history) Gerard Bouchard; 8. Making sense of public health:
citizenship regimes and public health in Victorian England Jane Jenson; 9.
The multicultural welfare state? Will Kymlicka; 10. From state-centrism to
neoliberalism: macro-historical contexts of population health since World
War II William H. Sewell, Jr.