Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health Populations (Social Institutions and Social Change)

Each topical chapter in this volume crystallies 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.Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health Populations (Social Institutions and Social Change), 1 was published 1994 under ISBN 9780202304908 and ISBN 0202304906.