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?
Barer, Morris
-The book is collectively written by several members of the
Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research. After many years of interaction, these authors,
representing various disciplines (e.g., biological, cultural,
social, economic), formulated ideas about both the determinants and
measurement of health and the proper role of the health care
delivery system... [T]he book focuses on strategies for improving
human health both through the development of better evaluation and
data systems, and by formulating better health policies while
promoting efficient and effective management of the health care
delivery system. General; undergraduate through professional.- --H.
S. Pitkow, Choice -This volume is as much a challenge for political
theorists as it is a collection for policy analysts; and it would
be a shame if it were only to circulate within the realm of public
policy.- --Katherine Fierlbeck, Canadian Journal of Political
Science -[T]he book synthesizes the literature from many
disciplines but presents a paradigm of health that is almost
universally accepted in both academic and health policy circles:
namely, that health is determined through the interplay of a host
of varied factors, with medicine merely one of many potentially
useful ones... [T]he book successfully emphasizes the possible
contributions to the health of populations of resource
reallocations from medical to non-medical activities... [T]he book
effectively highlights the trade-offs between medical expenditures
and other activities that may enhance health.- --Peter C. Coyte,
The Canadian Journal of Economics -At the heart of this book lies a
fundamental critique of two cornerstones of contemporary health
policy: the role of modern medical care in the production of
health, and the role of individual -life style choices- in the
production of disease... Overall this book is both an invaluable
resource for recent developed-country social epidemiology and a
stimulating critique of received theories and observations in the
social science of health and illness.- --Constance A. Nathanson,
Contemporary Sociology
"The book is collectively written by several members of the
Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research. After many years of interaction, these authors,
representing various disciplines (e.g., biological, cultural,
social, economic), formulated ideas about both the determinants and
measurement of health and the proper role of the health care
delivery system... [T]he book focuses on strategies for improving
human health both through the development of better evaluation and
data systems, and by formulating better health policies while
promoting efficient and effective management of the health care
delivery system. General; undergraduate through professional." --H.
S. Pitkow, Choice "This volume is as much a challenge for political
theorists as it is a collection for policy analysts; and it would
be a shame if it were only to circulate within the realm of public
policy." --Katherine Fierlbeck, Canadian Journal of Political
Science "[T]he book synthesizes the literature from many
disciplines but presents a paradigm of health that is almost
universally accepted in both academic and health policy circles:
namely, that health is determined through the interplay of a host
of varied factors, with medicine merely one of many potentially
useful ones... [T]he book successfully emphasizes the possible
contributions to the health of populations of resource
reallocations from medical to non-medical activities... [T]he book
effectively highlights the trade-offs between medical expenditures
and other activities that may enhance health." --Peter C. Coyte,
The Canadian Journal of Economics "At the heart of this book lies a
fundamental critique of two cornerstones of contemporary health
policy: the role of modern medical care in the production of
health, and the role of individual "life style choices" in the
production of disease... Overall this book is both an invaluable
resource for recent developed-country social epidemiology and a
stimulating critique of received theories and observations in the
social science of health and illness." --Constance A. Nathanson,
Contemporary Sociology
"The book is collectively written by several members of the
Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced
Research. After many years of interaction, these authors,
representing various disciplines (e.g., biological, cultural,
social, economic), formulated ideas about both the determinants and
measurement of health and the proper role of the health care
delivery system... [T]he book focuses on strategies for improving
human health both through the development of better evaluation and
data systems, and by formulating better health policies while
promoting efficient and effective management of the health care
delivery system. General; undergraduate through professional." --H.
S. Pitkow, Choice "This volume is as much a challenge for political
theorists as it is a collection for policy analysts; and it would
be a shame if it were only to circulate within the realm of public
policy." --Katherine Fierlbeck, Canadian Journal of Political
Science "[T]he book synthesizes the literature from many
disciplines but presents a paradigm of health that is almost
universally accepted in both academic and health policy circles:
namely, that health is determined through the interplay of a host
of varied factors, with medicine merely one of many potentially
useful ones... [T]he book successfully emphasizes the possible
contributions to the health of populations of resource
reallocations from medical to non-medical activities... [T]he book
effectively highlights the trade-offs between medical expenditures
and other activities that may enhance health." --Peter C. Coyte,
The Canadian Journal of Economics "At the heart of this book lies a
fundamental critique of two cornerstones of contemporary health
policy: the role of modern medical care in the production of
health, and the role of individual "life style choices" in the
production of disease... Overall this book is both an invaluable
resource for recent developed-country social epidemiology and a
stimulating critique of received theories and observations in the
social science of health and illness." --Constance A. Nathanson,
Contemporary Sociology
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