Placing Health [electronic resource] : Neighbourhood Renewal, Health Improvement and Complexity
Blackman, Professor Tim.
Bristol, U.K. : Policy,
c2006.
Where people live matters to their health. Health improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? Placing Health tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical and practice perspectives on this issue, anchored by major studies of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and the Programme for Action on health inequalities.
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Cover; PLACING HEALTH - Neighbourhood renewal, health improvement and complexity; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Preface; ONE - Policy and places; TWO - Health, neighbourhoods and complexity; THREE - Emergence and environment press; FOUR - The neighbourhood effect; FIVE - Neighbourhood renewal and health inequalities; SIX - Health inequality as a policy priority; SEVEN - Conclusion: neighbourhoods in the wider picture; References; Index; Also available from The Policy Press; Journals available from The Policy Press
Where people live matters to their health. Health improvement strategies often target where people live, but do they work? Placing Health tackles this question by exploring new theoretical, empirical and practice perspectives on this issue, anchored by major studies of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and the Programme for Action on health inequalities.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-229) and index.
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Health planning.
Regional medical programs.
Health planning
Regional medical programs
Europe
Regional Health Planning
Quality of Health Care
Sociology
Delivery of Health Care
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Population Characteristics
Health Care
Social Sciences
Health Planning
Health Services Administration
Geographic Locations
Patient Care Management
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Geographicals
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Health Services Accessibility
Community Health Planning
Socioeconomic Factors
Social Environment
Great Britain
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences
Public Health - General