Healthier Societies (eBook, ePUB)

From Analysis to Action
Redaktion: Heymann, Jody; Evans, Robert G.; Barer, Morris L.; Hertzman, Clyde

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Extensive research has shown that social factors are as important as biological ones in determining health, and their impact is enormous in both adults and children. The challenge of changing public policies and programs remains. Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action addresses the fundamental questions which will lead the way toward countries investing seriously in improving social conditions, as a way of improving population health. The book is divided into three parts. Section one addresses to what extent health is determined by biological factors, by social factors, and more fundamentally, by the interaction between the two. Section two examines four case studies that demonstrate the ways in which social change can dramatically affect adults' health, as well as launch children's lives onto healthy trajectories. This section analyzes the cases of nutrition, working conditions, social inequalities, and geographic disparities. The third section of the book takes a serious look at what would be involved in translating the research findings described throughout the book into action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190292546
• Artikelnr.: 42641984

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jody Heymann, Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA, Clyde Hertzman, Professor of Health Care and Epidemiology, Morris L. Barer, Professor of Health Care and Epidemiology, and Robert G. Evans, Professor of Economics, all at the University of British Columbia, USA

Inhaltsangabe

* Healthier Societies: An Introduction
* Part I: The complex relationship between social and biologic
determinants of health
* 1: Interactive role of genes and the environment
* 2: Biological pathways linking the social environment, development,
and health
* 3: Global and local perspectives on population health
* 4: A life course approach to health and human development
* 5: Universal medical care and health inequalities: right objectives,
insufficient tools
* Part II: An in depth look at several determinants of health
* 6: Food, nutrition and population health: From scarcity to social
inequalities
* 7: Work and health: New evidence and enhanced understandings
* 8: Income inequality as a determinant of health
* 9: Role of geography in inequalities in health and human development
* Part III: Moving from research to policy
* 10: Social welfare models, labour markets, and health outcomes
* 11: Changing trends in economic well-being in OECD countries: what
measure is most relevant for health?
* 12: Reallocating resources across public sectors to improve
population health
* 13: Taking different approaches to child policy
* 14: Where do we go from here? Translating research to policy