Authors:Robert F. Schoeni, James S. House, George A. Kapla
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publicatio
Keywords: policy, poverty, center, seriesin, public, national, health, healthier, social, economic, making, americans
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0871547481
ISBN-13: 9780871547484

The United States spends billions of dollars annually on social and economic policies aimed at improving the lives of its citizens, but the health consequences associated with these policies are rarely considered. In Making Americans Healthier, a group of multidisciplinary experts shows how social and economic policies seemingly unrelated to medical well-being have dramatic consequences for the health of the American people. Most previous research concerning problems with health and healthcare in the United States has focused narrowly on issues of medical care and insurance coverage, but Maki