Examining determinants of health from the perspective of social, economic and cultural circumstances is necessary to assist understanding the variations in the health of modern populations. ... The need to discover effective methods to prevent chronic and debilitating illness, combined with increasing life expectancy, was paramount. ... In some areas the health impact of poor quality housing is combined with neighbourhood problems such as substandard community services, high levels of unemployment, inadequate public transport and recreation, environmental hazards and violence. 2.5...

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This in turn articulate the contemporary sociologist to define the discipline of sociology and developed models and methods, combining ideas and update classical approaches, due to negative aspects in the social world. ... Most critiques have indicated that the doctrine is somewhat a conservative bias, because, while Parsons deal with modification, he tended to emphasis on the constructive aspects of social change in the modern world and does not deal with the process of change, but rather points of stability across periods of change, for instance, a vulnerability of the Pacific countries on t...

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