Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? : : The determinants of health of populations / / ed. by Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, Theodore R. Marmor.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©1994
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:Reprint 2021
Language:English
Series:Social Institutions and Social Change
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIX, 378 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Other title: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
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783112421628
DOI:10.1515/9783112421628
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, Theodore R. Marmor.