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A Reader In Promoting Public Health : Challenge and Controversy /

A Reader In Promoting Public Health : Challenge and Controversy / Edited by Jenny Douglas ... [et al.]. - 2nd ed. - Los Angeles : Milton Keynes, U.K. : SAGE ; [In association with] Open University, c2010. - x, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rise of modern multidisciplinary public health -- Millennium report to sir Edwin Chadwick -- How is health experienced? -- Older people's health: applying Antonovsky's Salutogenic paradigm -- Inequalities and ethnicity: evidence and intervention -- Poverty and health: global and national patterns -- Health impact assessment: a practitioner's view -- Health promotion: not drowning but waving? -- Putting social marketing into practice -- Dilemmas in public health research: methodologies and ethical practice -- The evaluation of health promotion practice: 21st century debates on evidence and effectiveness -- Epidemiology - to be taken with care -- Feminist research and health -- Researching the views of diabetes service users from south Asian backgrounds: a reflection on some of the issues -- Setting priorities in public health research -- What would the Ottawa charter look like if it were written today? -- Prisons in England and Wales: an important public health opportunity? -- Considerations in the prevention of obesity among children and adolescents: first, do no harm -- Global public health -- Terrorism and public health -- Global health promotion: how can we strengthen governance and build effective strategies? -- Perceptions of community participation and health gain in a community project for the south Asian population: a qualitative study -- Healthy nightclubs and recreational substance use: from a harm minimisation to a healthy settings approach -- Dirty whores and invisible men: sex work and the public health -- Does social capital have a role to play in the health of communities? -- Evaluating the empowering potential of community-based health schemes: the case of community health policies in the UK since 1997 -- Promoting social responsibility for health: health impact assessment and healthy public policy at the community level -- Health promotion, globalisation and health -- The market dominated future of public health? -- Yoga and promoting public health -- Death and contagion: contaminating bodies -- Disability rights, genetics and public health -- Mental health promotion -- Community regeneration: from apathy to anger to positive energy.

9781849201032 184920103X 9781849201049 (pbk.) 1849201048 (pbk.)

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101524809 DNLM 015357806 Uk


Health promotion.
Public health.
Public Health Practice.
Health Policy.

RA427.8 / .R43 2010

362.1 / REA

2010 B-575 WA 100 / R2867 2010
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