Health and the State (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Brend, William A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330708016 ISBN 13 : 9781330708019

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Health and the State explains how public policy shapes everyday health — and why hospitals, housing, and medical practice matter to the nation’s well‑being. This work shows how policy ideas shift, what they promise, and where they fall short in real life.

From hospital capacity to the doctor’s office, it traces the link between state action and health outcomes. The book draws on early 20th‑century debates about medical service, insurance, and public health duties to reveal the systemic forces that influence life and sickness.

• How hospital beds and access to care affect communities, especially in industrial towns


• What “panel practice” and private medical care meant for working‑class patients


• Why housing, sanitation, and pre‑natal conditions tie directly to infant mortality


• The role of public health agencies and policy in shaping health outcomes

Ideal for readers interested in the history of public health, health policy, and the social forces that shape medical care.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Br; PREFACE A healthy population is the finest form of national wealth, and in an industrialised country its possession depends to a large extent upon the completeness of the Public Health services and the success they achieve in securing a sound environment. In this country great efforts are made to promote healthy conditions of living :G overnment Offices administer Public Health measures, Local Authorities supervise sanitary conditions, and other organisations, public and private, spend vast sums in providing medical treatment for the sick. But the value of these efforts is seriously lessened by the division of administration among a number of uncoordinated authorities, which overlap in various directions, and yet leave large sections of the ground untouched. Social reformers, impressed with the confusion and delay resulting from this system or want of system have long urged the formation of a Ministry of Health in order to promote efficiency in administration, and it is not necessary at the present time to emphasise the importance of any steps likely to improve the health of the people.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330708016
• ISBN 13: 9781330708019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
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