Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?Morris Barer 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 -microenvironmental, - 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. |
Contents
Introduction | |
Producing Health Consuming Health Care | |
Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants | |
The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease | |
The Role of Genetics in Population Health | |
If Not Genetics Then What? Biological Pathways | |
Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective | |
What Can | |
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