Research Catalog

Title

U.S. health in international perspective : shorter lives, poorer health / Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries, Steven H. Woolf and Laudan Aron, editors ; Committee on Population Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education ; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine ; National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Woolf, Steven H.
• Aron, Laudan Y.
• National Academies (U.S.). Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries, supporting host. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sht
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, supporting host. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sht

Description

xxv, 394 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Environmental health > United States
• Medical care > United States
• Public health > United States
• Health attitudes > United States
• Health > Social aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Summary -- Introduction -- Documenting the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Shorter lives -- Poorer health throughout life -- Explaining the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Framing the question -- Public health and medical care systems -- Individual behaviors -- Social factors -- Physical and social environmental factors -- Policies and social values -- Future directions for understanding the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Research agenda -- Next steps.

ISBN

• 9780309264143
• 0309264146

OCLC

• ocn832425056
• 832425056
• SCSB-5682248

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries