America's social health : putting social issues back on the public agenda / Marque-Luisa Miringoff and Sandra Opdycke
- Bib ID:
- 4273171
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Miringoff, Marque-Luisa, 1947-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008
- 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780765616739
- 0765616734
- 0765616742
- 9780765616746
- Summary:
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"Painting a vivid portrait of our nation's social health, this book is a clarion call for a fundamental change in the focus of public policy in America." "Social progress in the U.S. has stalled and the country's energies need to be directed at critical domestic issues in the years ahead." "Miringoff and Opdycke maintain that social conditions, like economic conditions, must be constantly monitored in order to have a clear sense of "how we are doing" as a society. They propose a new agenda for monitoring America's social well-being built around these sixteen key indicators of American life: infant mortality; child poverty; child abuse; teenage suicide; teenage drug abuse; high school dropouts; unemployment; wages; health insurance coverage, poverty, ages 65 and over; out-of-pocket health costs, ages 65 and over; homicides; alcohol-related traffic fatalities; food stamp coverage; affordable housing; and income inequality."
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- We can do better : toward a new public dialogue on social health
- Shaping everyday discourse : the news media and social issues
- Social reports : institutionalizing the reporting of social indicators
- Measuring social health : the Index of social health and the National Survey of Social Health
- Social indicators for children
- Social indicators for youth
- Social indicators for adults
- Social indicators for the elderly
- Social indicators for all ages
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-213) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Opdycke, Sandra
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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