Routledge Studies in Public Health

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1. International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care

   Edited by Libby Sallnow, Suresh Kumar, Allan Kellehear

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach. The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Gender-based Violence and Public Health

   International perspectives on budgets and policies

   Edited by Keerty Nakray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity

   Morality, Mortality and the New Public Health

   Edited by Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, Amy Salmon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an ‘unholy trinity’ of lifestyle behaviours with apparently...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Global Health Disputes and Disparities

   A Critical Appraisal of International Law and Population Health

   By Dru Bhattacharya

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Health and Health Promotion in Prisons

   By Michael Ross

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   The impact of the United Nations "Healthy Prisons" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations. This invaluable book discusses the many health and medical issues that arise or are introduced into prisons from the perspective of both inmates...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Planning in Health Promotion Work

   An Empowerment Model

   By Roar Amdam

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Community development, planning and partnerships have become important terms in health promotion but, up until now, debate around these concepts have been discussed more in planning science than in public health literature. Roar Amdam draws on theories and new empirical evidence from local,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Organisational Capacity Building in Health Systems

   By Niyi Awofeso

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Capacity building – which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results – is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Population Mental Health

   Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

   Edited by Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Over the last century public health efforts, such as immunization, safer food practices, public health education and promotion, improved sanitation, and water purification have been very successful in eradicating and controlling a host of diseases. The result has been a dramatic improvement in...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge