Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

Cohesiveness and Coherence

Religion and the Health of the Elderly

Ellen L. Idler

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The Hidden Health Care System

Mediating Structures and Medicine

Lowell S. Levin, Ellen L. Idler, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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Hidden Health Care System

Mediating Structures and Medicine

Lowell S. Levin, Ellen L. Idler

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The Hidden Health Care System

Social Resources in Health Care

Lowell S. Levin, Ellen L. Idler

Health care policy traditionally views lay people as health care consumers. This groundbreaking book offers evidence of a new perspective: lay people are the primary providers of health care. The family, organized religion, voluntary associations, neighborhoods, and ethnic and racial groups act as a buffer between the individual and the large institutions of modern society. These small social groups or "mediating structures" comprise the hidden non-professional health care system which is Cost Effective, Integral, and Enduring.

Full-Service Schools

A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families

Joy G. Dryfoos

This book proposes a solution to the problems of dwindling education and social service budgets, as well as the plight of the inner-city youth who are struggling with substance abuse, behavioral problems, health-care needs, and community violence.

Understanding Health Policy

A Clinical Approach

Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach

A concise, clinically oriented introduction to a topic of growing importance and visibility--the structure and function of the U.S. healthcare system. Case examples illustrate fundamental topics such as containment, health insurance, primary care, and physician and hospital payment--and vividly ties policy issues to the practice of medicine.

Fit to be Citizens?

Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939

Natalia Molina

Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups.

Handbook of Behavioral Medicine

Methods and Applications

Andrew Steptoe

Behavioral medicine emerged in the 1970s as the interdisciplinary field concerned with the integration of behavioral, psychosocial, and biomedical science knowledge relevant to the understanding of health and illness, and the application of this knowledge to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Recent years have witnessed an enormous diversification of behavioral medicine, with new sciences (such as genetics, life course epidemiology) and new technologies (such as neuroimaging) coming into play. This book brings together such new developments by providing an up-to-date compendium of methods and applications drawn from the broad range of behavioral medicine research and practice. The book is divided into 10 sections that address key fields in behavioral medicine. Each section begins with one or two methodological or conceptual chapters, followed by contributions that address substantive topics within that field. Major health problems such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, HIV/AIDs, and obesity are explored from multiple perspectives. The aim is to present behavioral medicine as an integrative discipline, involving diverse methodologies and paradigms that converge on health and well being.

The Cigarette Century

The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America

Allan M. Brandt

An expose of the tobacco industry discusses the cultural, political, scientific, and legal aspects of cigarette smoking in modern America.

Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child

Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice

Sarah A. Font, Elizabeth T. Gershoff

This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.

Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

Ellen L. Idler

Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health explores the complex, multifaceted role of faith traditions in public health throughout history, today, and in the future. The volume brings together leading scholars in the social sciences, public health, and religion to address the important yet often neglected role of religious institutions in health and development efforts around the globe.

Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

Ellen L. Idler

Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health explores the complex, multifaceted role of faith traditions in public health throughout history, today, and in the future. The volume brings together leading scholars in the social sciences, public health, and religion to address the important yet often neglected role of religious institutions in health and development efforts around the globe.

Historical and Social Determinants of Public Education Policy in the United States and Europe

Alfred Stafford Clayton

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Religion and Public Education

A Bibliography

Lawrence Calvin Little

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The Role of Religion in the Food Choice Process and Dietary Practices of African-American Muslim Women

Angela Mable Odoms

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The Study of Religion in the Public Schools, an Appraisal

Report of a Conference on Religion and Public Education, Sponsored by the American Council on Education at Arden House, Harriman, New York, March 10-12, 1957

American Council on Education. Committee on Religion and Education

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