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Health and lifestyles / Mildred Blaxter.

By: Blaxter, Mildred.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1990Description: ix, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0415001471 (pbk.); 9780415001472.Subject(s): Public health -- Great Britain | Health behavior -- Great Britain | Health attitudes -- Great Britain | Health surveys -- Great Britain | Health and Wellbeing | Medicine: general issues | Public health & preventive medicine | United Kingdom, Great BritainDDC classification: 362.1042 BLA
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What is a `healthy' lifestyle? Which is more significant: the social circumstances in which people live, or lifestyle habits such as exercise or smoking?
Health and Lifestyles is the first description of a large and representative survey of the British population asking just those questions. It examines the findings, and considers issues such as measured fitness, declared health, psychological status, life circumstances, health-related behaviour, attitudes and beliefs. Providing firm evidence of the importance of social circumstances and patterns of health-related behaviour, Health and Lifestyles is an important contribution to current debate, revealing the levels of inequality in health in Britain today.

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 252-263.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The health and lifestyle survey
  • 3 What is health?
  • 4 The measurement of health
  • 5 Social circumstances and health
  • 6 Patterns of behaviour
  • 7 Attitudes and behaviour
  • 8 Behaviour and health
  • 9 Circumstances behaviour and health
  • 10 Conclusions and policy implications
  • Appendix

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This volume reports on health-related findings of the 1984/85 national Health and Lifestyle Survey conducted in England, Wales, and Scotland. The author presents summary information and selected examples of responses to such questions as what health means to you, how healthy are you, and what makes people healthy or ill. The report describes how "health" is distributed among various groups in the population (by age, socioeconomic means, or particular life-style habits) and draws conclusions about the relationships between these factors and health, the influence of environment on vulnerability to disease or ill health, and the extent to which personal responsibility for a healthy life-style contributes to overall health. A major conclusion is that socioeconomic, environmental, and psychosocial circumstances are more important determinants of health than are personal health habits. The final chapter presents policy implications based on this conclusion. A well-presented and unique look at the broad concept of health--far surpassing the medical notion of health as lack of disease. Excellent discussion of findings and an extensive bibliography. Academic and public library collections. -J. E. Thompson, University of Pennsylvania