UID:
almafu_9958062044002883
Format:
1 online resource (268 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1134872798
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1134872801
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128033659
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9786610336579
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0-203-42168-X
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:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-09234-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-09235-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203421680
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