Determinants of health
Subtitle: theory, understanding, portrayal, policy
By: by Matthew J. Commers.
Series: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine -- v. 13
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Medical ethics.; Medical care -- Philosophy.
Description: "For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health. Medicine has pursued patient participation in clinical decision-making. In the public health realm, target groups have been asked to assist in the design and implementation of initiatives for health in practice, however, patients and populations expect health professionals to give advice and - in some cases - to make decisions on their behalf. This implies limits to the ideal of participation. In this innovative work, the author contrasts public and professional understandings of health and the best ways to achieve health. The result is a model of lay participation in the structuring of medical and public health activity.

The book is unique due to its policy-applicable, quantitative studies and its theoretical analysis of works by Rene Dubos and Aaron Antonovsky. It will be of value to professionals in health promotion, health education, medical anthropology and social epidemiology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-208) and index.