ABSTRACT
In these conditions, research into the complex of factors involved in the dynamic of health that results from change in welfare at the micro level (individuals, households) acquires particular currency. What are the possibilities that people mobilise to overcome the well-known ‘vicious circle’ of poverty and poor health, each of which intensifies the other? Which factors facilitate this and which hinder it? And, finally, what are the feasible limits on the use of people’s own possibilities at the micro level – what might be called the ‘human dimension’ – that must be defined and taken into account in forming social policy?
