Key Themes in Public Health
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Key Themes in Public Health

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Key Themes in Public Health

About this book

'The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating. Miranda Thurston has succeeded in producing something which strikes the right note. It is wide ranging in scope without being superficial and is accessible to the young learner. It is a sort of 'Wiki'. Just what the aspiring public health practitioner ordered.' – Professor John R. Ashton C.B.E., President of the UK Faculty of Public Health.

Key Themes in Public Health comprises a series of introductory essays exploring key themes and concepts in public health.

Ranging from political and economic concern with improving population health and reducing health inequalities, to debates about how to protect populations from new health threats, as well as a concern with individual responsibility for lifestyles and behaviour, 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 by:

  • Defining the theme in an accessible way
  • Placing each idea in its particular social, political, economic and historical context
  • Illustrating its application and significance for public health
  • Identifying and exploring issues surrounding each of the themes

This text 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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780415673815
eBook ISBN
9781317671381
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Epidemiology

INDEX

  • 38 degrees 11
  • Acheson, D. 4, 102, 127
  • Active People Survey 117, 161
  • addiction, influence of 15
  • advocacy: cause 7–8
    • cause and effect 11
    • cholera transmissions 7
    • coalition of interest groups 8
    • communities 11
    • community-level empowerment and mobilization 7
    • context 7
    • cycle helmet laws in New Zealand 11
    • definition of 7–8
    • epidemiologists 9
    • framing 9–10
    • health inequalities 11
    • human rights 57–8
    • influencing of policy 9
    • media 10–11
    • municipal smoking bylaws in Canada 11
    • rarely prioritized 9
    • significance for public health 8–12
    • skills required for 9
    • social movements 8
    • state-owned ancient forests 11
    • strategic planning 9–10
    • values and 10
    • Vision Zero 11
    • voluntary sector organizations 9
  • AIDS see HIV/AIDS
  • alcohol: children learning from parents’ habits 166–7
    • consumption 31, 47, 64–5, 109, 128, 135, 161
    • marketing 167
    • price control 64–5, 128, 131
  • Alma-Ata Declaration 91, 136, 137, 138, 139
  • American Legacy Foundation ‘truth®’ 162
  • American Public Health Association (APHA) 8
  • Andreasen, A. 160
  • anthropogenic influences 21, 22
  • Argentina 119
  • assets-based community development (ABCD) 28
  • association, concept of: confounding 18
    • definition of 17
    • exclusion of chance, bias and confounding 18
    • positive and negative 17
    • subject to bias 18
  • Audit Commission: definition of partnership 120
  • Australia: vaccination compliance 59
  • Avaaz 11
  • bacteriology 111
  • Bahamas: HDI score 43
  • Bandura, A. 80
  • Bangkok Charter 92
  • Bangladesh: unequal distribution of land ownersh...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. Advocacy
  12. Behaviour change
  13. Causality
  14. Climate change (and sustainable development)
  15. Community
  16. Demography
  17. Deprivation and poverty
  18. Determinants of health
  19. Economic and human development
  20. Education
  21. Epidemiology
  22. Ethics
  23. Evaluation
  24. Evidence
  25. Global health and globalization
  26. Health
  27. Health education
  28. Health literacy
  29. Health needs
  30. Health promotion and the �new public health�
  31. Inequalities in health
  32. Lifecourse perspectives
  33. Lifestyle
  34. Medicine
  35. Official statistics
  36. Partnerships and partnership working
  37. Place
  38. Policy
  39. Prevention
  40. Primary health care
  41. Risk
  42. Screening
  43. Settings
  44. Social capital
  45. Social marketing
  46. Socialization
  47. The welfare state
  48. References
  49. Index