Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?

The determinants of health of populations
Herausgegeben:Evans, Robert G.; Barer, Morris L.; Marmor, Theodore R.

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• Social Institutions and Social Change
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1994.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9783112421611
• ISBN-10: 3112421612
• Artikelnr.: 61202708

Inhaltsangabe

Frontmatter -- About the Editors -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care -- PART II -- 3. Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health -- 4. The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease -- 5. The Role of Genetics in Population Health -- 6. If Not Genetics, Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health -- 7. Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective -- PART III -- 8. The Determinants of a Population's Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation's Health Status? -- 9. Small Area Variations, Practice Style, and Quality of Care -- 10. Regulating Limits to Medicine: Towards Harmony in Public- and Self-Regulation -- PART IV -- 11. Social Proprioception: Measurement, Data, and Information from a Population Health Perspective -- 12. The Future: Hygeia versus Panakeia? -- References -- Index