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Health in fragile states

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2014
The relationship between the security of a state and the health of its people is complex and multifaceted. Fragile states present unique challenges to health care systems.
Benton, B   +6 more
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State and health

Social Science & Medicine, 1989
This paper examines the health functions of the state in the F.R.G. in their historical, political and socio-economic inter-relationships. The main focus is on the antagonistic interests of the social classes. Special emphasis is placed on an analysis of the health political state intervention of 1974 which marked the beginning of the far-reaching ...
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The State of Health in the United States

JAMA, 2013
In the mid-1970s, John Knowles assembled a group of leading health thinkers whose essays were published inDaedalus and then released as a book entitled Doing Better and Feeling Worse:Health in theUnitedStates.1 In thedecadebetween 1965 and 1975, health expenditures in the United States had more than tripled, from $39 billion (5.9% of gross domestic ...
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Health Promotion and the State

New England Journal of Medicine, 2013
Policymakers at all levels of government are searching for ways to promote wellness and reduce unhealthy behaviors without overstepping or infringing on personal liberties. Thomas Farley, Steven Gortmaker, and Cass Sunstein address these issues in a roundtable discussion moderated by Meredith Rosenthal.
Meredith B, Rosenthal   +3 more
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The state and health in France

Social Science & Medicine, 1986
The Health Service in France (as indeed must be the case in many other countries) has been affected by a new technical dimension, which now adds its weight to the two main criteria, social and economic, which influence health provision. In the technical domain, new methods in research and treatment have transformed the nature of medical practice, which
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Describing Health States

Medical Care, 1984
In health status index construction quantitative values for different states of health are frequently obtained by presenting written descriptions to raters whose values are elicited using one or more methods. In this study the authors examined the influence of several aspects of this measurement process upon the quantitative results obtained.
Llewellyn-Thomas, Hilary   +5 more
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Health is a sustainable state

The Lancet, 1990
This commentary by Maurice King questions the viability of current public health strategies. He advocates for an ecological approach that seeks to improve the health of the entire planet. He discusses the concept of the demographic trap. Being demographically trapped refers to a population being stuck in an "unsustainable state with a high birth ...
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Is Health a State of Mind?

New England Journal of Medicine, 1979
The article by George Vaillant in this issue presents evidence, derived from a longitudinal study of a selected sample of college men, that poor mental health is associated with deterioration in ph...
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