Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?

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Morris Barer
Routledge, Jul 5, 2017 - Medical - 378 pages
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

Preface
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
Small Area Variations Practice Style and Quality of Care
Towards Harmony
Measurement Data
Hygeia Versus Panakeia?
References
Index
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors
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