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Ecological Public Health : Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health.
What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Ecological Public Health; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface: From the history to the future of public health; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I: Images and models of public health; 1. Introducing the notion of Ecological Public Health; 2. Defining public health; 3. The received wisdom of public health; Part II: The transitions to be addressed by public health; Introduction to Part II; 4. Demographic Transition; 5. Epidemiological and Health Transition; 6. Urban Transition; 7. Energy Transition; 8. Economic Transition; 9. Nutrition Transition.
- 10. Biological and Ecological Transition11. Cultural Transition; 12. Democratic Transition; Conclusion to Part II: an overview of the transitions; Part III: Reshaping the conditions for good health; 13. The implications of Ecological Public Health; Notes; Index.