Why are some people healthy and others not? : the determinants of health of populations / Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, and Theodore R. Marmor, editors.

New York : A. de Gruyter, [1994], ©1994.

xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-368) and index

Producing health, consuming health care / R.G. Evans and G.L. Stoddart -- Heterogeneities in health status and the determinants of population health / C. Hertzman, J. Frank, and R.G. Evans -- The social and cultural matrix of health and disease / E. Corin -- The role of genetics in population health / P.A. Baird -- If not genetics, then what? Biological pathways and population health / R.G. Evans, M. Hodge, and I.B. Pless -- Coronary heart disease from a population perspective / M.G. Marmot and J.F. Mustard -- The determinants of a population's health : what can be done to improve a democratic nation's health status? / T.R. Marmor, M.L. Barer, and R.G. Evans -- Small area variations, practice style, and quality of care / N.P. Roos and L.L. Roos -- Regulating limits to medicine : towards harmony in public- and self-regulation / J. Lomas and A.-P. Contandriopoulos -- Social proprioception : measurement, data, and information from a population health perspective / M.C. Wolfson -- The future : hygeia versus panakeia? / M. Renaud.