208 records matched your query       

Title:

Making Americans healthier : social and economic policy as health policy / [edited by] Robert F. Schoeni ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Russell Sage Foundation,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Schoeni, Robert F.
Russell Sage Foundation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The health effects of social and economic policy : the promise and challenge for research and policy / James S. House ... [et al.] -- Education and health : evaluating theories and evidence / David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney -- Health effects of human development policies / Daniel P. Keating and Sharon Z. Simonton -- Income support policies and health among the elderly / Pamela Herd, James S. House, and Robert F. Schoeni -- Did the introduction of food stamps affect birth outcomes in California? / Janet Currie and Enrico Moretti -- Lifting gates, lengthening lives : did civil rights policies improve the health of African American women in the 1960s and 1970s? / George A. Kaplan, Nalini Ranjit, and Sarah A. Burgard --
Macroeconomic conditions, health, and government policy / Christopher J. Ruhm -- The new employment contract and worker health in the United States / Richard H. Price and Sarah A. Burgard -- Welfare reform and indirect impacts on health / Marianne P. Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes -- The effects of welfare and child support policies on maternal health and well-being / Jean Knab, Irv Garfinkel, and Sara McLanahan -- Residential environments and obesity : what can we learn about policy interventions from observational studies? / Jeffrey D. Morenoff ... [et al.] -- Are some neighborhoods better for child health than others? / Rebecca C. Fauth and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- Social and economic policies as health policy : moving toward a new approach to improving health in America / Harold Pollack ... [et al.].

Series:

The National Poverty Center series on poverty and public policy

ISBN:

0871547473 (alk. paper)
9780871547477 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)163589232

LCCN:

2007031269

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)