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Healthier : fifty thoughts on the foundations of population health /
Public health can rightly claim its share of victories: healthier cities, widespread sanitation, broader availability of nutrient-rich food, and reductions in violence and injury. But for all these gains, today we face a new set of challenges, ones complicated by political and professional shifts th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- 1. Introduction
- Section 1. The foundations of population health
- 2. The aspirations and strategies of public health
- 3. Social justice, public health
- 4. On mechanisms vs. foundations
- 5. What health, for whom?
- 6. Pasteur's quadrant and population health
- 7. Producing health over a lifetime
- 8. Shaping values, elevating health
- 9. Towards a culture of health
- 10. Paternalism: unavoidable, perhaps desirable
- 11. At the heart of it all, empathy
- 12. On courage
- Section 2. The world as it is
- 13. More hate, more harm
- 14. The burden of incarceration
- 15. Finding a way out: suicide and the health of populations
- 16. The heavy toll of substance use
- 17. The health effects of war
- 18. Out in the cold
- 19. Priced out of health
- 20. When disaster strikes
- 21. Climate change and our health
- 22. Reproductive health, reproductive justice
- 23. Coming to terms with firearms
- 24. The corrosive role of racism
- Section 3. On inequities and the health of marginalized populations
- 25. On health haves and health have nots
- 26. Income and health
- 27. What Flint teaches us 28. Gender equity, almost
- 29. The well-being of LGBT populations
- 30. Transgender today
- 31. The health of immigrants
- 32. Caring for refugees
- Section 4. The challenges faced by public health
- 33. Population health science-are we doing it wrong?
- 34. To screen, or not to screen
- 35. Knowledge and values
- 36. A step backwards on vaccines
- 37. Living with complexity
- 38. Moving beyond
- 39. On ignorance
- 40. Acknowledging luck
- Section 5. Towards a healthier world
- 41. Aging healthy
- 42. In the heart of the city, health
- 43. Towards an activist public health
- 44. Promoting prevention
- 45. Innovating for a healthier public
- 46. Who should we talk to, and how?
- 47. On engaging the media
- 48. Making the acceptable unacceptable
- 49. Social movements and the conditions of health
- 50. Public health as public good
- 51. A world without public health
- Index.