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The social health of the nation : how America is really doing

Title
  1. The social health of the nation : how America is really doing / Marc Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Miringoff ; contributing author Sandra Opdycke.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Author
  1. Miringoff, Marc L.

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Additional authors
  1. Miringoff, Marque-Luisa, 1947-
  2. Opdycke, Sandra.
Description
  1. xiv, 245 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. This book offers a new view of the nation's social well-being by presenting reliable information on such factors as the accessibility of health care and health insurance coverage, the quality of education, the adequacy of housing and family income, drug abuse, poverty among the elderly or children, life expectancy and infant mortality, crime, and on how America compares with other industrial countries in these and other significant areas.
Subject
  1. 1980-2020
  2. Social indicators > United States
  3. Social ecology
  4. Social history
  5. Social Environment
  6. Social Conditions
  7. human ecology
  8. social history
  9. 71.60 social problems and social conflicts: general
  10. Social history
  11. Social ecology
  12. Social conditions
  13. Social indicators
  14. Sozialer Indikator
  15. Sozialstruktur
  16. Public Health
  17. Kwaliteit van het bestaan
  18. social conditions
  19. trend
  20. children
  21. mortality
  22. dropout
  23. older people
  24. poverty
  25. life expectancy
  26. violence
  27. youth
  28. health insurance
  29. wages
  30. income distribution
  31. crime
  32. drug abuse
  33. accident
  34. housing
  35. unemployment
  36. statistical table
  37. Économie du bien-être
  38. Économie publique > États-Unis
  39. Indicateurs sociaux > États-Unis
  40. conditions sociales
  41. tendance
  42. enfants
  43. mortalité
  44. abandon des études
  45. personnes âgées
  46. pauvreté
  47. espérance de vie
  48. jeunesse
  49. assurance-maladie
  50. salaire
  51. répartition du revenu
  52. criminalité
  53. abus des drogues
  54. logement
  55. chômage
  56. tableau statistique
  57. condiciones sociales
  58. tendencia
  59. niños
  60. mortalidad
  61. abandono de estudios
  62. personas de edad avanzada
  63. pobreza
  64. esperanza de vida
  65. violencia
  66. juventud
  67. seguro de enfermedad
  68. salario
  69. distribución del ingreso
  70. delito
  71. uso indebido de drogas
  72. accidente
  73. vivienda
  74. desempleo
  75. cuadros estadísticos
  76. United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
  77. United States
  78. USA
  79. USA
  80. États-Unis > Conditions sociales
  81. Etats-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1980- ..
  82. Etats-Unis
  83. Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  1. Electronic books.
  2. graph.
  3. graphique.
  4. gráfico.
Contents
  1. Seeking the social side of the portrait. How are we doing? -- Part of a tradition -- Framing a social health perspective for the nation. There's something else out there -- Indicators of improving performance -- Indicators of worsening performance -- Indicators of shifting performance -- Judging the nation's social performance -- Pursuing a practical vision. Advancing the field -- The tasks of visibility: a new direction for social reporting.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.