Key Themes in Public Health

ISBN-13: 9780415673815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 238 str.

Miranda Thurston

Opis

'Key Themes in Public Health' consists of introductory short essays exploring 50 key themes and concepts in public health. Ranging from political and economic concern with improving population health and reducing health inequalities, to debates about how to protect the population from new health threats, as well as a concern with individual responsibility for lifestyles and behaviour, the themes discussed include: determinants of health; globalisation; evidence; risk and population.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Advocacy  2. Behaviour Change  3. Causality  4. Climate Change and Sustainable Development  5. Community  6. Demography  7. Deprivation and Poverty  8. Determinants of Health  9. Economic and Human Development  10. Education  11. Epidemiology  12. Ethics  13. Evaluation  14. Evidence  15. Global health and Globalization  16. Health  17. Health Education  18. Health Literacy  19. Health Needs  20. Health Promotion and the New Public Health  21. Inequalities in Health  22. Lifecourse  23. Lifestyle  24. Medicine  25. Official Statistics  26. Partnerships and Partnership Working  27. Place  28. Policy  29. Prevention  30. Primary Health Care  31. Risk  32. Screening  33. Settings  34. Social Capital  35. Social Marketing  36. Socialization  37. The Welfare State

O autorze

Miranda Thurston is Professor of Public Health at Hedmark University College, Norway.