Miringoff, Marque-Luisa,  1947- <br/><br/>
America's social health :  putting social issues back on the public agenda / 
Marque-Luisa Miringoff and Sandra Opdycke. 
 - Armonk, N.Y. :  M.E. Sharpe,  c2008. 
 - 255 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-213) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- We can do better : toward a new public dialogue on social health -- Shaping everyday discourse : the news media and social issues -- Social reports : institutionalizing the reporting of social indicators -- Measuring social health : the Index of social health and the National Survey of Social Health -- Social indicators for children -- Social indicators for youth -- Social indicators for adults -- Social indicators for the elderly -- Social indicators for all ages -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780765616739 (cloth : alk. paper) 0765616734 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007023511 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social indicators--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.<br/>United States--Social policy--1993-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN 60 .M56 2008