Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of the Health of PopulationsRobert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, Theodore R. Marmor Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed the links between social hierarchy, the â macroenvironmentalâ factors in illness patterns, the quality of the â microenvironmental,â and other determinants of health. In its aggregate, this volume will prove essential to an understanding of the underlying public health issues for the next several decades. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Producing Health Consuming Health Care | 27 |
Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health | 67 |
The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease | 93 |
The Role of Genetics in Population Health | 133 |
Not Genetics Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health | 161 |
Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective | 189 |
The Determinants of a Populations Health What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nations Health Status? | 217 |
Small Area Variations Practice Style and Quality of Care | 231 |
Regulating Limits to Medicine Towards Harmony in Public and SelfRegulation | 253 |
Social Proprioception Measurement Data and Information from a Population Health Perspective | 287 |
The Future Hygeia Versus Panakeia? | 317 |
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Biographical Sketches of the Contributors | |
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