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

by Blane,David; Blane,David

• ISBN13: 9780415130707
• ISBN10: 0415130700
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• 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

Preface	p. xv
The Evolution of Public Health Policy an Anglocentric View of the Last Fifty Years	p. 1
The Policy Problem	p. 19
To Prevent Disease the Need for a New Approach	p. 21
The Significance of Socioeconomic Factors in Health for Medical Care and the National Health Service	p. 32
References	p. 39
The Social Pattern of Health and Disease	p. 42
References	p. 65
Environment and Economic Growth	p. 69
Social Determinants of Health the Sociobiological Translation	p. 71
What's Been Said and What's Been Hid	p. 94
How Can Secular Improvements in Life Expectancy Be Explained?	p. 109
References	p. 122
The Family and Life Course	p. 123
Patterns of Attachment, Interpersonal Relationships and Health	p. 125
References	p. 143
Family and Education as Determinants of Health	p. 152
Education, Social Circumstances and Mortality	p. 171
References	p. 185
Transmission of Social and Biological Risk Across the Life Course	p. 188
Unpaid Work, Carers and Health	p. 204
References	p. 229
Work and the Labour Market	p. 233
Work and Health	p. 235
Health and Work Insecurity in Young Men	p. 255
References	p. 269
The Social and Biological Basis of Cardiovascular Disease in Office Workers	p. 272
Policy Integration	p. 301
Health and Social Capital	p. 303
Index	p. 314
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