The Social Origins of Health and Well-being
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Description
The past decade has seen a growth in research into the social determinants of health. This research challenges the assumptions that investments in the health system and lifestyle behaviours are responsible for health gains. By focusing on inequalities in health, the research has shed light on a range of factors that influence health. This book covers the differential health impacts of family and early development, changes in work and work conditions, health systems, the physical environment of cities, indigenous peoples,…
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Key features
- Brings together in the one volume some of the most important research in public health in Australia and New Zealand for an international audience
- Designed to serve as a textbook for Australasian students in public health and sociology of health courses
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511819599
- Subjects Epidemiology Public Health and Medical Statistics,Health and Medicine,Sociology,Sociology of Science and Medicine
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 24 June 2002
- ISBN: 9780521890212
- Dimensions (mm): 247 x 174 mm
- Weight: 0.733kg
- Contains: 56 b/w illus. 11 tables
- Page extent: 368 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 14 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780511819599
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