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Global handbook on noncommunicable diseases and health promotion /
Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion David V. McQueen, editor A scan of health challenges around the globe readily brings to mind a range of infectious illnesses, from HIV to influenza. Yet chronic non-contagious conditions--heart disease, asthma, diabetes, cancer--are mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section I Theoretical and methodological issues
- High-risk versus population prevention strategies for NCDs: Geoffrey Rose revisited in the twenty-first century
- Current and future theoretical foundations for NCDs and health promotion
- The nature of causality: beyond traditional evidence
- Surveillance for NCDs and health promotion: an issue of theory and method
- Section II Lenses for understanding NCDs
- Learning from the social sciences in chronic diseases health promotion: structure, agency and distributive justice
- Contextual factors in health and illness
- The social determinants of non-communicable diseases: a political perspective
- Risk factors: tobacco
- Physical inactivity and health promotion: evidence and challenges
- NGOs addressing NCDs through a health promotion lens
- Health literacy as a lens for understanding non-communicable diseases and health promotion
- From healthy public policy to intersectoral action and health-in-all policies
- Section III Approaches to NCDs
- Population health intervention research: a fundamental science for NCD prevention
- Planning and management of cross-sectoral programs: strategies to address NCDs
- The publich policy approach: governments, institutions, welfare states and social justice
- Accelerating action on NCDs: Understanding and applying a social determinants of health framework for changes
- Cardiovascular health, risk, and disease: primordial and remedial strategies
- Advocacy strategies to address NCDs: actions to increase the profile of phhsical activity
- Advocacy strategies to address NCDs: tobacco control
- Evidence synthesis to inform NCD prevention and health promotion
- Using evidence to inform NCD prevention and heal promotion
- The health promotion argument: NCDs and public health
- Public health, NDCs, health promotion, and business partnering: benefits, concers, remedies, and moving towards creative partnering
- Section IV Institutions and organizations
- Framing international trade and chronic disease
- Addressing NCDs through multilateral engagement at the United Nations: The role of WHO
- Governance, policy, and institutions
- NCDs and civil society: a history and a roadmap
- Developing health promotion workforce capacity for addressing non-communicable diseases globally
- Health promotion for NCDs in and by hospitals: a healt promoting hospital perspective.