Robert G. Evans & Morris L. Barer 
Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? [PDF ebook] 
The determinants of health of populations

Frontmatter — About the Editors — Contents — Preface — PART I — 1. Introduction — 2. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care — PART II — 3. Heterogeneities in Health Status and the Determinants of Population Health — 4. The Social and Cultural Matrix of Health and Disease — 5. The Role of Genetics in Population Health — 6. If Not Genetics, Then What? Biological Pathways and Population Health — 7. Coronary Heart Disease from a Population Perspective — PART III — 8. The Determinants of a Population’s Health: What Can Be Done to Improve a Democratic Nation’s Health Status? — 9. Small Area Variations, Practice Style, and Quality of Care — 10. Regulating Limits to Medicine: Towards Harmony in Public- and Self-Regulation — PART IV — 11. Social Proprioception: Measurement, Data, and Information from a Population Health Perspective — 12. The Future: Hygeia versus Panakeia? — References — Index