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1. Global Health: An introduction to current and future trends

   By Kevin McCracken, David R. Phillips

   The health of human populations around the world is constantly changing and the health profiles of most nations in the early twenty first century global health landscape are unrecognizable compared with those of just a century ago. This book examines and explains these health changes. While the...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-55757-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Global Health Governance

   By Sophie Harman

   In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike. This concern has arisen from...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56158-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Understanding the Politics of Pandemic Scares: An Introduction to Global Politosomatics

   By Mika Aaltola

   Reactions to pandemics are unlike any other global emergency; with an emphasis on withdrawal and containment of the sight of the infected. Dealing with the historical and conceptual background of diseases in politics and international relations, this volume investigates the global political...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-60381-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: The Role of Learning and Education

   Edited by Marianne E. Krasny, Cecilia Lundholm, Ryan Plummer

   A growing body of literature focuses on resilience, or the capacity of a social-ecological system to sustain itself in the face of disturbance and change. Resilience adds to the discussion of sustainability and environmental education research because: (1) social-ecological systems are constantly...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55253-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man: Coping With Stigma

   By Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli

   Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-88069-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity: Morality, mortality and the new public health

   Edited by Kirsten Bell, Amy Salmon, Darlene McNaughton

   Although drinking, smoking and overeating have long been a focus of social and moral opprobium, over the past few decades they have come under concerted attack from public health. While much remains to be learnt about the relationship between alcohol, tobacco, overconsumption of fatty foods and...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59017-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Government of Chronic Poverty: From the politics of exclusion to the politics of citizenship?

   Edited by Sam Hickey

   What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty? Can ‘development beyond neoliberalism’ offer the strategies required to challenge such persistent forms of poverty, particularly through efforts to promote citizenship amongst poor people? Drawing on case-study evidence from Africa, Latin America...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59850-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

   By Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea

   Population Mental Health identifies the tools and strategies of public health practice – surveillance and screening, early identification, preventive interventions, health promotion and community action – and their application to twenty-first century public mental health policy and practice....

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-77921-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health

   Edited by Richard Parker, Marni Sommer

   At the beginning of the twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage. They range from arsenic in drinking water to asthma among children and adults; from the re-emergence of cholera, to increasing cancer rates and other chronic disease; from AIDS to malaria...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-77848-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Lives

    Edited by Janice Ristock

    Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. When same-sex violence is considered, it is most commonly as an "added on," without close attention to the specificity and meaning of violence within the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-99879-6 | Hardback (Routledge)