America's social health
Subtitle: putting social issues back on the public agenda
By: Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Sandra Opdycke.
Contributors: Opdycke, Sandra.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Armonk, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780765616739
Subjects: Social indicators -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: We can do better : toward a new public dialogue on social health; title: Shaping everyday discourse : the news media and social issues; title: Social reports : institutionalizing the reporting of social indicators; title: Measuring social health : the Index of social health and the National Survey of Social Health; title: Social indicators for children; title: Social indicators for youth; title: Social indicators for adults; title: Social indicators for the elderly; title: Social indicators for all ages; title: Epilogue.