Structural Approaches in Public Health

ISBN-13: 9780415500869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str.

Marni Sommer

Opis

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors - social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental - are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including individual and population vulnerability to infection with HIV and AIDS, injury-prevention, obesity, and smoking cessation. Recognising the inadequacy of public health responses that focus solely on individual behaviour change to improve population health outcomes, this text promotes a more holistic approach. Discussing the structural factors related to health and well-being that are both within and outside of an individual's control, it explores what form structural approaches can take, the underlying theory of structure as a risk factor and the local realities, environments, and priorities that public health practitioners need to take into consideration. Anchored in empirical evidence, the book provides case studies of innovative and influential interventions - from the 100% condom program, to urban planning, injury prevention, and the provision of adequate clean drinking water and sanitation systems - and concludes with a section on implementing and evaluating structural public health programs. This comprehensive text brings together a selection of internationally-recognised authors to provide an overview for students and practitioners working in or concerned with public health around the globe.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Structural Approaches in Public Health  Marni Sommer and Richard Parker  Part 1: Defining Structural Factors  Chapter 2. The History of Structural Approaches in Public Health  James Colgrove, Amy Fairchild, and David Rosner  Chapter 3. Social Inequalities and Public Health  Ruth Bell, Peter Goldblatt, and Michael Marmot  Chapter 4. Embracing Complexity: Towards Platforms for Integrated Health and Social Service Delivery  Andrew Ellner, Christine Pace, Scott Lee, Jonathan L. Weigel, and Paul Farmer  Chapter 5. Ideological Barriers to Structural Interventions: Towards a Model of Values-Based Interventions  Michael Sweat and Kevin O’Reilly  Chapter 6. Getting the Balance Right: Agency and Structure in HIV Prevention  Peter Aggleton, Jean Shoveller, Kate Shannon, Thomas Kerr, and Rod Knight  Part 2: Designing and Implementing Structural Interventions  Chapter 7. Integrating Water and Sanitation Interventions for Health: A Case Study from eThekwini Municipality  Elisa Roma, Neil Macleod, and Christopher Buckley  Chapter 8. City Planning as a Structural Determinant of Health: Towards Healthy Urban Governance in the Century of the City  Jason Corburn  Chapter 9. The 100% Condom Use Programme: A Structural Intervention to Prevent HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Asia  Wiwat Rojanapithayakorn and Richard Steen  Chapter 10. The Sonagachi/Durbar Programme: A Prototype of a Community-led Structural Intervention for HIV Prevention  Dallas Swendeman and Smarajit Jana  Chapter 11. Breaking the Links: Legal and Paralegal Assistance to Reduce Health Risks of Police and Pre-Trial Detention of Sex Workers and People Who Use Drugs  Daniel Wolfe, Jonathan Cohen, Heather Doyle, and Tatyana Margolin  Chapter 12. Structured Environments and Dietary-Related Chronic Diseases  Deborah A. Cohen  Chapter 13. Structural Approaches for Unintentional Injury Prevention  Adnan A. Hyder and Jeffrey C. Lunnen  Part 3: Evaluating Structural Interventions  Chapter 14. Evaluating Structural Interventions in Public Health: Challenges, Options and Global Best Practice  Paul Pronyk, Jennifer Schaefer, Marie-Andree Somers, and Lori Heise  Chapter 15. Developing and Evaluating Structural-Environmental Interventions to Reduce HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers and their Sexual Partners in the Dominican Republic  Deanna Kerrigan, Clare Barrington, and Luis Moreno  Chapter 16. Helmet Day! Structural Intervention and Strategic Learning in Vietnam  Mary Byrne McDonnell and Alyson Metzger  Chapter 17. Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: From the Genetic to the Global Level  Jonathan M. Samet and Heather L. Wipfli  Chapter 18. Social Policy Interventions and Health  Celina Su and Peter Muennig