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Health and wealth : studies in history and policy /
Today's complex policy problems cannot be understood by the social, medical, and policy sciences, alone. History is also required to interpret the present and to inform attempts to mold the future. The essays in this volume seek to bring an historical perspective to bear on today's nationa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Rochester studies in medical history ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The population health approach in historical perspective
- The idea of demographic transition and the study of fertility
- Change: a critical intellectual history
- The importance of social intervention in Britain's mortality
- Decline c.1850-1914: a reinterpretation of the role of public health
- Mortality in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: a reply to Sumit Guha
- Urbanization, mortality, and the standard of living debate: new estimates of the expectation of life at birth in nineteenth-century British cities
- Economic growth, disruption, deprivation, disease, and death: on the importance of the politics of public health for development.
- The G.R.O. and the public health movement in Britain, 1837-1914
- The silent revolution in nineteenth-century government: the rise of local government expertise
- Health, class, place, and politics: social capital, opting in and opting out of collective provision in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain
- Health by association? social capital, social theory, and the political economy of public health
- Public health and security in an age of globalizing economic growth: the awkward lessons of history.