Publisher's Synopsis
Originally published between 1968 and 1989, the volumes in this set:
- Present a coherent body of information on the inter-relation between nutrition, health and disease in its social context.
- Examine various aspects of disease ecology relating socio-geographical contrasts to a dichotomy between infectious and non-infectious diseases.
- Investigate certain large-scale demographic phenomena in India - among others the experience of bubonic plague, influenza, cholera and famine.
- Discuss how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process.
- Explain why so many people suffer behavioural changes in later life; how this affects those around them and the challenges of providing health services for ageing populations.
- Provide historical perspective on contemporary difficulties and invite debate about the future development of health services.
- Offer international comparisons, particularly between the UK and US health care systems.
- Explore how the NHS confronts perennial stresses and problems, in particular the allocation of scarce resources.
- Investigate policy and legislation in the area of the provision of medicines.
- Chart the dramatic changes in the US mental health system during the 20th Century.