[...]... social determinants of health Healthier Societies: An Overview This book is designed to address the knowledge gaps behind the barriers to approaching health from a societal perspective In part I the authors address the following questions: To what extent is health determined by biological factors? To Healthier Societies: An Introduction 5 what extent is it determined by social factors? And more fundamentally,... ideas that have gone into this book and who have debated us, stimulated our thinking, and encouraged us to focus on the best way to create healthier societies The seeds for this work were sown early Cecile Brault, high school teacher and ´ advisor, grounded Jody Heymann in the impact of lived inequalities and in the responsibility we all have to do all we can to address them Tom Robinson, Clyde Hertzman’s... pediatrics in Vancouver over thirty years ago, steps ahead of the times This book is dedicated to them and to many more than we can name who influenced the courses of our lives and this work from its earliest stages This page intentionally left blank Contents About the Editors, xv About the Contributors, xvii Healthier Societies: An Introduction, 3 Jody Heymann and Clyde Hertzman Part I: The Complex Relationship... We’re deeply grateful to both for their help All good books benefit from a wise and experienced editorial eye, and this book was no exception Jeffrey House at Oxford University Press brought his experienced eye to this project and gave invaluable suggestions Carrie Pedersen generously gave of her time to finish the project after Jeffrey House retired from Oxford We are deeply indebted to the many colleagues... into the discussion in chapter 9 of the role of geography in determining how inequalities affect health and human development Dunn and colleagues examine the wide range of factors that are associated with geography, from the extent to which housing is heterogeneous, to the availability of child and elder care, to the quality of public transportation Yet even when we are convinced that social factors... Sanmartin Part III: Moving from Research to Policy 10 Social Welfare Models, Labor Markets, and Health Outcomes, 267 Joachim Vogel and Tores Theorell ¨ 11 Changing Trends in Economic Well-being in OECD Countries: What Measure Is Most Relevant for Health? 296 Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe 12 Reallocating Resources across Public Sectors to Improve Population Health, 327 Greg L Stoddart, John D Eyles, John... Paul C Chaulk 13 Taking Different Approaches to Child Policy, 348 Anita L Kozyrskyj, Lori J Curtis, and Clyde Hertzman 14 Where Do We Go from Here? Translating Research to Policy, 381 Alison Earle, Jody Heymann, and John N Lavis Index, 405 About the Editors jody heymann is the founding director of the Project on Global Working Families, the first project devoted to understanding and improving the relationship... 2000, Frank was appointed Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Population and Public Health, located at the University of Toronto Frank’s main area of interest is the biopsychosocial determinants of health status at the population level Frank was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto and is currently a senior scientist... of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba Over the past nine years she has been a health services researcher at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy Her research has spanned several areas, from population health studies in asthma and other chronic diseases in children to policy research on pharmaceuticals She is Manitoba Director of the Western Regional Training Centre in Health Services... About the Contributors independent, nonprofit research organization Its main objectives are to study trends and determinants of productivity, living standards, and economic well-being and to develop policy recommendations to improve the lives of Canadians Sharpe’s earlier positions include Head of Research at the Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre and Chief, Business Sector Analysis at the . Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action JODY HEYMANN, et al., Editors OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Healthier Societies This page intentionally left blank Healthier Societies From Analysis to. Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Healthier societies : from analysis to action / Jody Heymann [etal.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and. improve population health from basic science research to public policy. —Clyde Hertzman Director, Program in Population Health 1998–2003 Acknowledgments The editors and contributors gratefully acknowledge