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Edited by Bengt Lindström and Nick Spencer. 614 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. $135. ISBN 0-19-262179-3.

This is the first book in the English language that presents a detailed analysis of the many aspects of pediatric care that are heavily influenced by social, political, environmental, and familial factors. The book links public health concerns with traditional pediatric care, which is oriented toward the individual child. Thus, to an American audience, this is a crossover book and potentially an extremely important one, since so much of the morbidity and mortality among children in our society results from macroenvironmental and microenvironmental influences. The book reviews such issues as poverty, nutrition, injuries, prematurity, child abuse, and human immunodeficiency virus . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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