A-Z of Public Health

by Glenn Laverack

Overview

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the many definitions, theories and approaches in public health. It is an important book for students and practitioners who are interested in public health, and for those who are keen to improve it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350313347
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/12/2014
Series:	Professional Keywords
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	420 KB

About the Author

Glenn Laverack is seen as a leader in health promotion and empowerment and has a distinguished career in public health for more than 25 years working in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and the Pacific regions. He formerly worked as the TDR Coordinator (Empowerment) at the WHO in Geneva and as a senior research fellow at the Southgate Institute, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Laverack is currently an honorary professor at the University of Southern Denmark and has a wide range of publications including books in English, Portugese, Russian and German. His Ph.D. investigated the accommodation of community empowerment within top-down public health programming in the South Pacific. He has a significant range of professional experience in cross-cultural settings that facilitates a broad insight at both a theoretical and practice level.
Glenn Laverack is an Independent Public Health Adviser.

Table of Contents

1. activism
2. Addiction
3. adulthood and later life
4. Advocacy
5. asset-based community development
6. Autonomy
7. baby friendly
8. behaviour change
9. capacity building
10. child protection
11. climate change
12. communicable disease
13. Community
14. counter tactics
15. critical education
16. Definition
17. Disability
18. Empowerment
19. environmental health
20. Epidemiology
21. evidence based
22. fear-based campaigns
23. female genital cutting
24. food poverty
25. gender mainstreaming
26. Globalization
27. Health
28. health economics
29. health impact assessment
30. health in all policies
31. health information systems
32. health networks
33. health policy
34. health promotion
35. human resources for health
36. Hygiene
37. indigenous peoples
38. inequalities agenda
39. Injury
40. Journalism
41. knowledge, attitude and practice
42. lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
43. Lifestyle
44. Malnutrition
45. maternal, newborn and child health
46. men's health
47. mental health
48. needs assessment
49. non-communicable disease
50. overweight and obesity
51. Participation
52. participatory rural appraisal
53. peer education
54. policy change
55. population growth
56. Power
57. prevention paradox
58. Prostitution
59. Reformers
60. risk communication
61. risk factors
62. Schools
63. sexual health
64. social determinants of health
65. social entrepreneurship
66. social movements
67. theory of change
68. tobacco control
69. upstream and downstream
70. Violence
71. Volunteerism
72. women's health
73. workplace health
74. Youth
75. zero-sum.

Editorial Reviews

This book covers 75 main entries and many other definitions, terms and theories. Each main entry provides the reader with a precise definition, a theoretical interpretation and, if appropriate, examples of the practical application. At the end of each entry is a listing of three key texts to provide further sources of information … This book takes a new and refreshing approach to the theory and practice of public health. Its pocket-size format makes it a handy sourcebook.” —C. Albert Yeung, Journal of Public Health, Vol. 40 (1)

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