Full title: 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.

Author/creator: Barer, M. L, Evans, Robert G., 1942-, Marmor, Theodore R.

Call Numbers: N614.42/12

Record Identifier: 74VK7DALZPed

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm., 1. Introduction / R. G. Evans -- 2. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care / R. G. Evans and G. L. Stoddart -- 3. Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health / C. Hertzman, J. Frank and R. G. Evans -- 4. The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease / E. Corin -- 5. The Role of Genetics in Population Health / P. A. Baird -- 6. If Not Genetics, Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health / R. G. Evans, M. Hodge and I. B. Pless -- 7. Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective / M. G. Marmot and J. F. Mustard -- 8. The Determinants of a Population's Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation's Health Status? / T. R. Marmor, M. L. Barer and R. G. Evans -- 9. Small Area Variations, Practice Style, and Quality of Care / N. P. Roos and L. L. Roos -- 10. Regulating Limits to Medicine: Towards Harmony in Public- and Self-Regulation / J. Lomas and A.-P. Contandriopoulos., 11. Social Proprioception: Measurement, Data, and Information from a Population Health Perspective / M. C. Wolfson -- 12. The Future: Hygeia versus Panakeia? / M. Renaud.

Publishers: New York : A. de Gruyter, c1994.

Notes: Social institutions and social change. Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-368) and index.

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DDC: 614.42

MMS ID: 991022703379702626