Health and social organization - David Blane

There is widespread recognition that the most powerful
determinants of health today are to be found in social,
economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic
growth, income distribution, consumption, work oganisation,
unemployment and job insecurity, social and family
structure, education and deprivation, and they are all
aspects of 'social organisation'. In ^Health and Social
Organisation leading British and North American
researchers who bring together an invaluable collection of
data on these issues, draw from the social sciences,
epidemiology and biology.

'An impressively broad array of superb evidence illustrating the wide variety of "social" influences on numerous aspects of health and illness.' - British Medical Journal

'This volume is refreshing as a text which puts health - rather than medical services or the NHS - at the heart of heath policy...offers a wealth of data and a sophisticated level of debate.' - Sociology of Health and Illness

'A useful and timely book...strongly recommended as a contemporary source in the subject.' - Journal of Public Health Medicine