UID:
edoccha_9958106112402883
Format:
1 online resource (343 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-79110-0
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1-134-79111-9
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1-280-31924-0
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0-203-43493-5
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9786610319244
Content:
Leading British and North American researchers show that determinants of health are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. Examines recent public health policy as well as focusing on social organization issues.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Preface; The evolution of public health policy: an anglocentric view of the last fifty years; To prevent disease: the need for a new approach; The significance of socioeconomic factors in health for medical care and the National Health Service; The social pattern of health and disease; Social determinants of health: the sociobiological translation; What's been said and what's been hid: population health, global consumption and the role of national health data systems
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How can secular improvements in life expectancy beexplained?Patterns of attachment, interpersonal relationships and health; Family and education as determinants of health; Education, social circumstances and mortality; Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course; Unpaid work, carers and health; Work and health: implications for individuals and society; Health and work insecurity in young men; The social and biological basis of cardiovascular d
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-13070-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-13069-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203434932
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