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.

• MitwirkendeR: Baird, P. A.,; Barer, M. L.,; Contandriopoulos, A.-P.,; Corin, E.,; Evans, R. G.,; Frank, J.,; Hertzman, C.,; Hodge, M.,; Lomas, J.,; Marmor, T. R.,; Marmot, M. G.,; Mustard, J. F.,; Pless, I. B.,; Renaud, M.,; Roos, L. L.,; Roos, N. P.,; Stoddart, G. L.,; Wolfson, M. C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Barer, Morris L.,; Evans, Robert G.,; Marmor, Theodore R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: Reprint 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Social Institutions and Social Change
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 378 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of 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