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America's social health : putting social issues back on the public agenda / Marque-Luisa Miringoff and Sandra Opdycke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miringoff, Marque-Luisa, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social indicators--United States.
- Social indicators.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social policy--1993-.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- We can do better : toward a new public dialogue on social health
- Shaping everyday discourse : the news media and social issues
- Social reports : institutionalizing the reporting of social indicators
- Measuring social health : the Index of social health and the National Survey of Social Health
- Social indicators for children
- Social indicators for youth
- Social indicators for adults
- Social indicators for the elderly
- Social indicators for all ages
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780765616739
- 0765616734
- OCLC:
- 144547856
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