Successful Societies

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on population health as an indicator of social success, this book examines how social institutions and cultural frameworks affect health and the policies that address it. Built on dialogue among diverse disciplines, it offers social epidemiologists and social scientists broader perspectives on the social determinants of population health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780521736305
• ISBN-10: 0521736307
• Artikelnr.: 26103671

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.