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Why are some people healthy and others not? : the determinants of health of populations / Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, and Theodore R. Marmor, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social institutions and social change.
- Social institutions and social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health.
- Environmental health.
- Medical policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XIX, 378 p.) : Num. figs.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2021
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, [1994]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- About the Editors
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care
- PART II
- 3. Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health
- 4. The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease
- 5. The Role of Genetics in Population Health
- 6. If Not Genetics, Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health
- 7. Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective
- PART III
- 8. The Determinants of a Population's Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation's Health Status?
- 9. Small Area Variations, Practice Style, and Quality of Care
- 10. Regulating Limits to Medicine: Towards Harmony in Public- and Self-Regulation
- PART IV
- 11. Social Proprioception: Measurement, Data, and Information from a Population Health Perspective
- 12. The Future: Hygeia versus Panakeia?
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-368) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783112421628
- 3112421620
- OCLC:
- 1257325240
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