Citation

Baillargeon DL, Smith DC. J. Soc. Iss. 1980; 36(4): 35-58.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1540-4560.1980.tb02636.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Community safety and police services production processes manifest diverse patterns within and between jurisdictions. Using data from a comparative study of policing in sixty neighborhoods, distributed across three metropolitan areas, an analytic typology of modes or patterns of citizen-police production activities is derived and proposed for use in subsequent productivity analysis. Detailed descriptions of policing and citizen safety related activities are examined in selected neighborhoods in order to assess the integrity of the proposed production categories. Relationships between the production categories, neighborhood and department characteristics, and various measures of police "performance" are then presented. Implications for productivity analysis are considered."According to the Great Equation, Medical Care equals Health. But the Great Equation is wrong. More available medical care does not equal better health. The best estimates are that the medical system (doctors, drugs, hospitals) affects about 10 percent of the usual indexes for measuring health: whether you live at all (infant mortality), how well you live (days lost due to sickness), how long you live (adult mortality). The remaining 90 percent are determined by factors over which doctors have little or no control, from individual lifestyle (smoking, exercise, worry) to social conditions (income, eating habits, psychological inheritance), to the physical environment (air and water quality). Most of the bad things that happen to peoples' health are at present beyond the reach of medicine."

Language: en