ISBN:
1280530790
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9781280530791
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1429404213
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9781429404211
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 245 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Social health of the nation
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Social indicators United States
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Social indicators
;
Social indicators
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Social conditions
;
Social indicators
;
Kwaliteit van het bestaan
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
United States Social conditions
;
1980-
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United States Social conditions 1980-
;
United States Social conditions 1980-
;
United States Social conditions
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1971-
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United States
;
United States
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
For the past twelve years, the annual release of the Index of Social Health has been a major event, cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national media our most reliable barometer of progress in addressing America's social ills. Now, in The Social Health of the Nation, the Index for 1999-an invaluable fount of information-is available for the first time in book form. Rejecting the notion that the Dow Jones Industrial Averages and its ilk are the sole valid measures of progress in the United States, the authors offer a fuller and deeper view of our nation's quality of life, gathering together statistical information on such factors as the well-being of America's children and youth, the accessibility of health care, the quality of education, or the adequacy of housing. Readers will find solid information about drug abuse, children in poverty, life expectancy, homicides, and health insurance coverage. And we get these facts in context, so that we know where we are improving-for instance, poverty among the elderly, infant mortality, and the high school dropout rate have all declined.; Equally important, we discover where we are losing ground-suicide rates among the young are 40 percent higher than in 1970, for example, and income inequality is at its worst level in 50 years. Here then is the key to the true State of the Union. The first national survey in the U.S. to bring together varied aspects of social health, including education, work, family, medical care, American culture, and the arts, The Social Health of the Nation gives us a more finely focused picture of the national fabric-and reveals where that fabric needs mending
Description / Table of Contents:
Seeking the social side of the portrait. How are we doing?Part of a tradition -- Framing a social health perspective for the nation. There's something else out there -- Indicators of improving performance -- Indicators of worsening performance -- Indicators of shifting performance -- Judging the nation's social performance -- Pursuing a practical vision. Advancing the field -- The tasks of visibility: a new direction for social reporting.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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