Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century

by Blane,David; Blane,David

• ISBN13: 9780415130691
• ISBN10: 0415130697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-10-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

There is a growing recognition that the most powerful determinants of health in modern populations are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances.Health and Social Organisationfocuses on the determinants of health in developed countries, discussing the role of education, the workplace and the family. It considers the timing of major influences on health and questions whether there are special periods of vulnerability early in life or whether circumstances throughout life are equally important. The final section draws out the implications for policy and for links between health and economic performance, emphasizing the need for greater investment to combat the low educational standards and high unemployment which cause both poor health and poor economic performance.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(3)
List of tables	x	(3)
Contributors	xiii	(2)
Preface	xv
1 The evolution of public health policy: an anglocentric view of the last fifty years	1	(20)
David Blane
Eric Brunner
Richard Wilkinson
Part I The policy problem	21	(50)
2 To prevent disease: the need for a new approach	21	(11)
S. Leonard Syme
3 The significance of socioeconomic factors in health for medical care and the National Health Service	32	(10)
Mildred Blaxter
4 The social pattern of health and disease	42	(29)
Michael Marmot
Part II Environment and economic growth	71	(54)
5 Social determinants of health: the sociobiological translation	71	(23)
Alvin R. Tarlov
6 What's been said and what's been hid: population health, global consumption and the role of national health data systems	94	(15)
Clyde Hertzman
7 How can secular improvements in life expectancy be explained?	109	(16)
Richard Wilkinson
Part III The family and life course	125	(110)
8 Patterns of attachment, interpersonal relationships and health	125	(27)
Peter Fonagy
9 Family and education as determinants of health	152	(19)
Michael Wadsworth
10 Education, social circumstances and mortality	171	(17)
David Blane
Ian White
Jerry Morris
11 Transmission of social and biological risk across the life course	188	(16)
Chris Power
Mel Bartley
George Davey Smith
David Blane
12 Unpaid work, carers and health	204	(31)
Maria Evandrou
Part IV Work and the labour market	235	(68)
13 Work and health: implications for individuals and society	235	(20)
Michael Marmot
Amanda Feeney
14 Health and work insecurity in young men	255	(17)
Mel Bartley
Scott Montgomery
Derek Cook
Michael Wadsworth
15 The social and biological basis of cardiovascular disease in office workers	272	(31)
Eric Brunner
Part V Policy integration	303	(11)
16 Health and social capital	303	(11)
J. Fraser Mustard
Index	314