Making Americans healthier
Subtitle: social and economic policy as health policy
By: [edited by] Robert F. Schoeni ... [et al.].
Contributors: Schoeni, Robert F.; Russell Sage Foundation.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780871547477
Subjects: Medical policy -- United States; Social policy -- Health aspects -- United States; Economic policy -- Health aspects -- United States; Public health -- Social aspects -- United States; Public health -- Economic aspects -- United States; Health Policy -- United States; Health Status -- United States; Public Health -- United States; Public Policy -- United States; Socioeconomic Factors -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The health effects of economic and social policy : the promise and challenge for research and policy / James S. House ... [et al.]; title: Education and health : evaluating theories and evidence / David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney; title: Developmental health effects of human development policies / Daniel P. Keating and Sharon Z. Simonton; title: Income support policies and health among the elderly / Pamela Herd, James S. House, and Robert F. Schoeni; title: Did the introduction of food stamps affect birth outcomes in California? / Janet Currie and Enrico Moretti; title: Lifting gates, lengthening lives : did civil rights policies improve the health of African-American women in the 1960's and 1970's? / George A. Kaplan, Nalini Ranjit, and Sarah Burgard; title: Macroeconomic conditions, health, and government policy / Christopher J. Ruhm; title: The new employment contract and worker health in the United States / Richard H. Price and Sarah A. Burgard; title: Macroeconomic conditions, health, and government policy / Christopher J. Ruhm; title: The new employment contract and worker health in the United States / Richard H. Price and Sarah A. Burgard; title: Welfare reform and indirect impacts on health / Marianne P. Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes; title: The effects of welfare and child support policies on maternal health and wellbeing / Jean Knab, Irv Garfinkel, and Sara McLanahan; title: Residential environments and obesity : what can we learn about policy interventions from observational studies? / Jeffrey D. Morenoff ... [et al.]; title: Are some neighborhoods better for child health than others? / Rebecca C. Fauth and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; title: Economic and social policy as health policy? : moving towards a new approach to improving health in America / Harold Pollack ... [et al.].