Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion, 1981
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Publication Catalog of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Author: United States. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Free to Be Foolish
Author: Howard M. Leichter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400861993
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be "foolish"? In a look at such highly charged health issues as smoking, alcohol, road safety, and AIDS, Howard Leichter analyzes the efforts of the United States and Great Britain to confront the seemingly constant tension involved with this question. Leichter contends that both governments are now paying less attention to providing access to health care and more to forcing or encouraging people to change their behavior. The result has been a transformation of health politics from a largely consensual to a largely conflictual enterprise: health promotion policies often provoke debate on issues filled with scientific uncertainties, while taking on the quality of a disagreeable moral crusade. A primary concern of this book is to account for the differences, as well as the similarities, between the two countries in their public health policies. Leichter examines, for example, why seat belt regulation flourished in the American states even when federal action was blocked while, in Britain's more concentrated political structure, similar regulation faced a tortuous political path through the Lords and Commons. Finding that the United States is more apt to use formal regulation and that Britain tends toward voluntary agreement, Leichter compares the two approaches. Neither government avoids conflict, he maintains, but regulation, despite its problems, is more effective. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400861993
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be "foolish"? In a look at such highly charged health issues as smoking, alcohol, road safety, and AIDS, Howard Leichter analyzes the efforts of the United States and Great Britain to confront the seemingly constant tension involved with this question. Leichter contends that both governments are now paying less attention to providing access to health care and more to forcing or encouraging people to change their behavior. The result has been a transformation of health politics from a largely consensual to a largely conflictual enterprise: health promotion policies often provoke debate on issues filled with scientific uncertainties, while taking on the quality of a disagreeable moral crusade. A primary concern of this book is to account for the differences, as well as the similarities, between the two countries in their public health policies. Leichter examines, for example, why seat belt regulation flourished in the American states even when federal action was blocked while, in Britain's more concentrated political structure, similar regulation faced a tortuous political path through the Lords and Commons. Finding that the United States is more apt to use formal regulation and that Britain tends toward voluntary agreement, Leichter compares the two approaches. Neither government avoids conflict, he maintains, but regulation, despite its problems, is more effective. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Health Behavior
Author: Sonya Bahar
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489908331
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
HEALTH BEHAVIOR AS BASIC RESEARCH Health behavior is not a traditional discipline, but a newly emerging interdisciplinary field. It is still in the process of establishing its identity. Few institutional or organizational structures, i. e. , departments and programs, reflect it, and few books and journals are directed at it. The primary objective of this book is thus to identify and establish health behavior as an important area of basic research, worthy of being studied in its own right. As a basic research area, health behavior transcends commitment to a particular behavior, a specific illness or health problem, or a single set of determinants. One way of achieving this objective is to look at health behavior as an outcome of a range of personal and social determinants, rather than as a set of risk factors or as targets for intervention strategies directed at behavioral change. The book is thus organized pri marily in terms of the size of the determinants of concern, rather than in terms of specific health behaviors, or specific health problems or conditions. With the first part of the book establishing working defmitions of health behavior and health behavior research as basic frameworks, the second part moves from smaller to larger systems, informing the reader about basic research that demonstrates how health behavior is determined by personal, family, social, institutional, and cultural factors. These distinctions reflect some arbitrar iness: the family, organizations, and institutions, for example, are social units.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489908331
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
HEALTH BEHAVIOR AS BASIC RESEARCH Health behavior is not a traditional discipline, but a newly emerging interdisciplinary field. It is still in the process of establishing its identity. Few institutional or organizational structures, i. e. , departments and programs, reflect it, and few books and journals are directed at it. The primary objective of this book is thus to identify and establish health behavior as an important area of basic research, worthy of being studied in its own right. As a basic research area, health behavior transcends commitment to a particular behavior, a specific illness or health problem, or a single set of determinants. One way of achieving this objective is to look at health behavior as an outcome of a range of personal and social determinants, rather than as a set of risk factors or as targets for intervention strategies directed at behavioral change. The book is thus organized pri marily in terms of the size of the determinants of concern, rather than in terms of specific health behaviors, or specific health problems or conditions. With the first part of the book establishing working defmitions of health behavior and health behavior research as basic frameworks, the second part moves from smaller to larger systems, informing the reader about basic research that demonstrates how health behavior is determined by personal, family, social, institutional, and cultural factors. These distinctions reflect some arbitrar iness: the family, organizations, and institutions, for example, are social units.
The Sociology of Health and Illness
Author: Peter Conrad
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716709985
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This collection of 49 readings offers an integrated analysis of the most important issues regarding health and health care from a critical and sociological perspective. Substantive introductions provide context for the readings. With ten new and two revised essays, the Seventh Edition contains more coverage of key areas such as alternative medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and the relationship between healthcare and politics.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780716709985
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This collection of 49 readings offers an integrated analysis of the most important issues regarding health and health care from a critical and sociological perspective. Substantive introductions provide context for the readings. With ten new and two revised essays, the Seventh Edition contains more coverage of key areas such as alternative medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and the relationship between healthcare and politics.
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Author: John Hamilton Holbrook
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Health behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Health behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description