Health and wealth
Series: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -- v. 123, no. 4
Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge, Ma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Health; Sociological aspects; Health behavior; Effect of social status on; Medical care; Wealth
Other titles: Health & wealth.
Work titles: Daedalus
Notes: On cover: Health & wealth.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The determinants of health from a historical perspective / Robert G. Evans; title: Health care as a threat to health: defense, opulence, and the social environment / John N. Lavis, Gregory L. Stoddart; title: Can we have too much health care? / Richard G. Wilkinson; title: The epidemiological transition: from material scarcity to social disadvantage? / S. Leonard Syme; title: The social environment and health / Naoko T. Miyaji, Margaret Lock; title: Monitoring motherhood: sociocultural and historical aspects of maternal and child health in Japan / Naoki Ikegami; title: Efficiency and effectiveness in health care / Nathan Rosenberg; title: How the developed countries became rich / Paul M. Romer; title: Economic growth and investment in children / Max S. Cynader; title: Mechanisms of brain development and their role in health and well-being / Clyde Hertzman; title: The lifelong impact of childhood experiences: a population health perspective / Michael C. Wolfson; title: Toward a system of health statistics; title: Social differentials in health within and between populations.