Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 255 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
020342168X
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0415092353
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0415092345
Content:
Among developed countries it is not the richest societies that have the best health, but those that have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Why? This book shows that social cohesion is crucial to the quality of life
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and indexes
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the social economy of health; Health becomes a social science; Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition; The problem of health inequalities; Income distribution and health; A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan; An anthropology of social cohesion; The symptoms of disintegration; The psychosocial causes of illness; Baboons, civil servants and children's height; Social capital: putting Humpty together again
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415092340
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Unhealthy Societies : The Afflictions of Inequality
Language:
English
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