Settings and issues : determinants of health / papers commissioned by the National Forum on Health.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• National Forum on Health (Canada)

Series:

• Canada Health Action: Building on the Legacy ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Public health--Canada.
• Medicine, Preventive--Canada.
• Children--Health and hygiene--Canada.
• Adulthood--Health and hygiene--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sainte-Foy, Québec : Éditions MultiMondes : : National Forum on Health, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

• ""First Cover""; ""Foreword""; ""Table of contents""; ""Settings""; ""Toward Healthy Families""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Healthy Families and Health Determinants: Key Conclusions from the research Literature""; ""Definitional Conundrums and Old Reruns""; ""The Triple Helix Framework of Healthy Families""; ""Genetic Inheritance/Predisposition and Family""; ""Life Chances: Surviving and Thriving""; ""Social Resources and Healthy Families""; ""Social Support: The BIG Effect""; ""Access to Health through Family""; ""Chains, Effects, and Amplification""
• ""Policies, Programs, Projects, and Natural Experiments: Lessons on What Works and What Does not""""Summary of Success Stories""; ""Families as Actors as Well as Subjects: Lessons from History""; ""Families and Children “at Promiseâ€?""; ""Family Matters and the Family Matters Program""; ""Brighter Futures and Running in Place""; ""Miracle at Duke and Water""; ""Beyond Health Promotion: Is Family and Community ActionEnough?""; ""Policy Implicationsâ€?Principles to Guide Government Action""; ""Policy Implications""; ""Principles to Guide Government Action for Healthy Families""
• ""Strategic Targets That Require Policy Action""""Bibliography""; ""Schools, Mental Health and Life Quality""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Objectives""; ""School Efects on Student Outcomes""; ""Definitionsâ€?Cognitive and Noncognitive Domains of Child Functioning""; ""Relationship between Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes""; ""The Importance of Prevention""; ""Research Design Isues""; ""Study Design""; ""Choice of Student Outcomes and School Variables""; ""Sample of Schools Studied""; ""School Effects Defined as Progress over Time""; ""School Effects Studies""; ""Overview""
• ""Effective Schools Model""""Review of Exemplary Studies""; ""Key Conclusions""; ""Stories and Lessons Learned""; ""Criteria for Selection of Stories""; ""Story Descriptors""; ""Five Stories""; ""Lessons Learned""; ""Policy Implications""; ""Principles to Guide the Actions of Governmentsâ€?“Elements of Best Practiceâ€?""; ""The School Improvement Cycle""; ""Facilitating Factors and Barriers to Change""; ""The Role of Evaluation in Policy and Practice""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Creating Healthier Work Environments: A Critical Review of the Health Impacts of Workplace Change""
• ""Table of Contents""""Context: the changing work environment and workersâ€? health""; ""Workplace determinants of health""; ""Individual Lifestyle Factors""; ""Job Factors""; ""Organizational Factors at Unit or Firm Level""; ""External (Community, Regional, National, and Global) Influences""; ""The impact of efforts to improve workersâ€? health""; ""Occupational Health and Safety""; ""Workplace Health Promotion""; ""Organizational Change""; ""Selection of case studies""; ""Description of Group A case studies""; ""Outcomes of Group A case studies""; ""Engstrom et al. (1995)""
• ""Fiedler et al. (1984)""

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 08, 2013).

ISBN:

• 9782895442103
• 289544210X
• 9781435698918
• 1435698916

OCLC:

857067383