Title The social health of the nation : how America is really doing / Marc Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Miringoff ; contributing author Sandra Opdycke

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) : illustrations Series OUP E-Books 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Social indicators -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Social conditions Social indicators Kwaliteit van het bestaan. SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524 Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Miringoff, Marque-Luisa, 1947- Opdycke, Sandra LC no. 99230995 ISBN 1429404213 9781429404211 1280530790 9781280530791 9786610530793 6610530793

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