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Society And Population Health Reader, The: Vol 2: A State and Community Perspective
By (Author) Alvin R. Tarlov
The New Press
The New Press
8th January 2001
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Health systems and services
362.1
Hardback
368
Width 188mm, Height 240mm
784g
The second volume of a two-volume reader concerned with the findings of leading social scientists and medical researchers around the world. Contributors to this survey of the connections between social structures and public health, reveal that life expectancy, illness and other health factors are closely related to the structure of a given society, and that variations in health within a population are primarily related to socio-structural factors, including income inequality, educational differences, lack of opportunity and racism.