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Promoting health : global perspectives
- Title
- Promoting health : global perspectives / edited by Angela Scriven and Sebastian Garman.
- Publication
- Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA427.8 .P7653 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 297 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This challenging and provocative book explores many contentious and debated issues associated with the promotion of health at a global level.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Ilona Kickbusch -- 1. Promoting health : a global context and rationale / Angela Scriven -- pt. I. Global issues in promoting health : an overview / Angela Scriven -- 2. Key global health concerns for the twenty-first century / Basiro Davey -- 3. Inequalities in health : international patterns and trends / David McDaid and Adam Oliver -- 4. Global health promotion : challenges and opportunities / Maurice Mittelmark -- 5. The social context of health promotion in a globalising world / Sebastian German -- pt. II. Global health challenges : an overview / Angela Scriven -- 6. Globalisation and noncommunicable diseases / Derek Yach, Robert Beaglehole and Corinna Hawkes -- 7. Food, health and globalisation : is health promotion still relevant? / Martin Caraher, John Coveney and Tim Lang -- 8. Tobacco : the global challenge for health promotion / Samira Asma, Prakash Gupta and Charles W. Warren -- 9. HIV/AIDS : lessons for and from health promotion / Peter Aggleton -- 10. Global environmental change and health / Paul Wilkinson -- pt. III. Strategies for promoting health in the global context : an overview / Angela Scriven -- 11. Promoting health in low and middle income countries : achievements and challenges / John Hubley -- 12. Trends and factors in the development of health promotion in Africa, 1973-2003 / David Nyamwaya -- 13. Health promotion in Latin America / Hiram Arroyo -- 14. A public health and system approach to health protection and health promotion in Hong Kong / Sophia Chan and Gabriel Leung -- 15. Public health in the former Soviet Union / Joana Godinho -- 16. Health promotion development in Europe : barriers and new opportunities / Erio Ziglio, Spencer Hagard and Chris Brown -- 17. Health promotion in Australia and New Zealand : the struggle for equity / Shane Hearn, Hine Martin, Louise Signal and Marilyn Wise -- 18. Health promotion in Canada : back to the past or towards a promising future? / Ann Pederson, Irving Rootman and Michel O'Neill -- 19. Health promotion in the USA : building a science-based health promotion policy / Debra Lightsey, David McQueen and Laurie Anderson.
- ISBN
- 9781403921376
- 1403921377
- 1403921369
- 9781403921369
- OCLC
- ocm56653297
- 56653297
- SCSB-1354831
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library