A reader in promoting public health
Subtitle: challenge and controversy
By: edited by Jenny Douglas ... [et al.].
Contributors: Open University
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: SAGE; [In association with] Open University; Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles; Milton Keynes, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781849201032; 9781849201049
Subjects: Health promotion; Public health; Public Health Practice; Health Policy
Description: "The second edition of A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that explore and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public health. This thoroughly updated and revised new edition addresses contemporary issues that are high on the agenda of public health, and enables the reader to understand and negotiate this broad and dynamic field of study." -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of modern multidisciplinary public health; title: Millennium report to sir Edwin Chadwick; title: How is health experienced?; title: Older people's health: applying Antonovsky's Salutogenic paradigm; title: Inequalities and ethnicity: evidence and intervention; title: Poverty and health: global and national patterns; title: Health impact assessment: a practitioner's view; title: Health promotion: not drowning but waving?; title: Putting social marketing into practice; title: Dilemmas in public health research: methodologies and ethical practice; title: The evaluation of health promotion practice: 21st century debates on evidence and effectiveness; title: Epidemiology - to be taken with care; title: Feminist research and health; title: Researching the views of diabetes service users from south Asian backgrounds: a reflection on some of the issues; title: Setting priorities in public health research; title: What would the Ottawa charter look like if it were written today?; title: Prisons in England and Wales: an important public health opportunity?; title: Considerations in the prevention of obesity among children and adolescents: first, do no harm; title: Global public health; title: Terrorism and public health; title: Global health promotion: how can we strengthen governance and build effective strategies?; title: Perceptions of community participation and health gain in a community project for the south Asian population: a qualitative study; title: Healthy nightclubs and recreational substance use: from a harm minimisation to a healthy settings approach; title: Dirty whores and invisible men: sex work and the public health; title: Does social capital have a role to play in the health of communities?; title: Evaluating the empowering potential of community-based health schemes: the case of community health policies in the UK since 1997; title: Promoting social responsibility for health: health impact assessment and healthy public policy at the community level; title: Health promotion, globalisation and health; title: The market dominated future of public health?; title: Yoga and promoting public health; title: Death and contagion: contaminating bodies; title: Disability rights, genetics and public health; title: Mental health promotion; title: Community regeneration: from apathy to anger to positive energy.