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Zusatztext 'An impressively broad array of superb evidence illustrating the wide variety of "social" influences on numerous aspects of health and illness.' - British Medical Journal'This volume is refreshing as a text which puts health - rather than medical services or the NHS - at the heart of heath policy...offers a wealth of data and a sophisticated level of debate.' - Sociology of Health and Illness'A useful and timely book...strongly recommended as a contemporary source in the subject.' - Journal of Public Health Medicine Informationen zum Autor Blane, David; Brunner, Eric; Wilkinson, Richard Klappentext There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic growth, income distribution, consumption, work oganisation, unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, education and deprivation, and they are all aspects of 'social organisation'. In ^Health and Social Organisation leading British and North American researchers who bring together an invaluable collection of data on these issues, draw from the social sciences, epidemiology and biology. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures, List of tables, Contributors, Preface, 1 The evolution of public health policy: an anglocentric view of the last fifty years, Part I The policy problem, Part II Environment and economic growth, Part III The family and life course, Part IV Work and the labour market, Part V Policy integration, Index
