Miranda Thurston

Key Themes in Public Health

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Produktbeschreibung

This text comprises a series of introductory essays exploring key themes and concepts in public health. The themes discussed include: determinants of health, globalisation, evidence, climate change, ethics, development, poverty, risk and population. Presenting provocative ways of thinking about key ideas in a concise fashion, each essay provides a basic grounding in the relevant theme as well as a departure point for further study. It provides an accessible overview for students new to public health who want to get to grips with the full range and complexity of this diverse and multidisciplinary field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780415673815
• ISBN-10: 041567381X
• Artikelnr.: 32911364

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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