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Edition: 1
Release: 2007-09-05
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1580462162
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
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Today's complex policy problems cannot be understood by the social, medical, and policy sciences, alone. History is also required to interpret the present and to inform attempts to mould the future. The essays in this volume seek to bring an historical perspective to bear on today's national and international policy concerns and to present original historical research, which challenges conventional assumptions and viewpoints. In Health and Wealth the essays in Part I offer an historian's reappraisal of several of the most influential ideas dealing with the relationships between health and economic development in the post-war international policy sciences, such as demographic transition theory; the McKeown thesis; and the population health approach. Part II presents a distinctive interpretation of the course and causes of mortality change in Britain during the 'long century' of industrialisation, c.1780-1914. British history shows that rapid economic growth is a highly disruptive proces Download Health and Wealth for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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