Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?

Fülszöveg

An Aldine de Gruyter Series of Texts and Monographs
Series Editors
Michael Useem, University of Pennsylvania
James D. Wright, Tulane University
Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, and Theodore R. Marmor
EDITORS
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 "macroenvironmental" factors in illness patterns, the quality of the
"microenvironment," 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.
"At a time when many countries are confusing health with health care, a gifted, diverse group of researchers
and synthesizers have made sense out of the right question: 'Why are some people healthy and others not?'
In eminently readable form, the authors manage to span the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

An Aldine de Gruyter Series of Texts and Monographs
Series Editors
Michael Useem, University of Pennsylvania
James D. Wright, Tulane University
Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, and Theodore R. Marmor
EDITORS
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 "macroenvironmental" factors in illness patterns, the quality of the
"microenvironment," 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.
"At a time when many countries are confusing health with health care, a gifted, diverse group of researchers
and synthesizers have made sense out of the right question: 'Why are some people healthy and others not?'
In eminently readable form, the authors manage to span the range from what is known about variance in
population health to genetics and biological pathways. Epidemiologists, economists, sociologists, political
scientists, health service researchers, and other disciplines all manage to speak with sufficient consistency
of language and uncommon clarity to build the rare bridges between their disciplines. This book is must
reading for anyone interested in how we can invest to improve population health."
—Jonathan E. Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics,
UCLA Schools of Public Health and Medicine
"This is a landmark volume that organizes the intellectual tableau setting the stage for reconceptualizing the
framework for health improvement. We have had Hippocrates and traditional medical care for 2500 years,
and public health for 150 years. Now, the authors have provided the basis for a third health improvement sec-
tor based on the fundamental root determinants of the health of populations, determinants that are embedded
in the macro-social structure of society. Although it will be years or decades before societies will be ready to
make the difficult economic and political choices to improve health, this book provides a fair, rigorously
empirical, and politically impartial documentation of the evidence upon which the choices can be made."
—Alvin R. Tarlov, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Tufts University,
and Professor of Health Promotion, Harvard University
"This book presents an original multi-disciplinary perspective and probing analysis of the impact of health
status factors other than conventional medical causes of disease. It lays the foundation for 'health beyond
health care' with profound implications for healthy public policy."
—John R. Evans, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, AllelixBiopharmaceutical, Inc.,
and Chairman, Rockefeller Foundation Vissza