Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Sandra Opdycke

America's Social Health (eBook, PDF)

Putting Social Issues Back on the Public Agenda

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Calling for a fundamental change in the focus of public policy in America, this book paints a vivid portrait of the nation's social health. It proposes an agenda for monitoring America's social well-being built around 16 key indicators of American life, such as infant mortality, teenage suicide, health insurance coverage, and affordable housing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317477020
• Artikelnr.: 42042026

Autorenporträt

Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. She has served as Chair of the Sociology Department and Director of the Urban Studies Program. She has been a member of the Institute for Innovation in Social Policy since 1985 and its Director since 2004. Her writings include The Social Health of the Nation: How America Is Really Doing (1999) with Marc Miringoff and Sandra Opdycke, The Social Costs of Genetic Welfare (1991), mand numerous articles on health and social indicators.,
Sandra Opdycke, Ph.D., has been Associate Director of the Institute for Innovation in Social Policy since 1985. Her writings include The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America (2000), Placing a Human Face on the Uninsured (2000), The Social Health of the Nation: How America Is Really Doing (1999) with Marc Miringoff and Marque-Luisa Miringoff, No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City Since 1900 (1999), and American Social Policy: Reassessment and Reform (1986) with Marc Miringoff. She previously taught at Vassar College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Social Reporting in American Life
Chapter 1 We Can Do Better: Toward a New Public Dialogue on Social Health
Chapter 2 Shaping Everyday Discourse: The News Media and Social Issues
Chapter 3 Social Reports: Institutionalizing the Reporting of Social Indicators
Chapter 4 Measuring Social Health: The Index of Social Health and the National Survey of Social Health
Part 2 A Closer Look: Key Indicators of Social Health
Chapter 5 Social Indicators for Children
Chapter 6 Social Indicators for Youth
Chapter 7 Social Indicators for Adults
Chapter 8 Social Indicators for the Elderly
Chapter 9 Social Indicators for All Ages
con Conclusion