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  • Smoking Geographies

    Space, Place and Tobacco

    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Smoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and tobacco is ‘governed’.The text centres on one of the most important public health issues worldwide, and a major determinant of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Health Geography

    The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and receipt of health care in complex ways. The connection between health and place has been acknowledged for centuries, and the contemporary discipline of health geography sets as its core mission to uncover and explicate all facets of this connection.The Routledge Handbook of Health Geography features 52 chapters from leading ... Read more

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  • COVID-19 and Similar Futures

    Pandemic Geographies

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume provides a critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing the full range of issues and perspectives that the discipline of geography can expose and bring to the table, not only to this specific event, but to others like it that might occur in future. Comprised of almost 60 short (2500 word) easy to read chapters, the collection provides numerous theoretical, empirical and ... Read more

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  • Health in Hard Times

    Austerity and Health Inequalities

    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How has austerity impacted on health and wellbeing in the UK? Health in Hard Times explores its repercussions for social inequalities in health.The result of five years of research, the book draws on a case study of Stockton-on-Tees in the north-east of England, home to some of the starkest health divides. By placing individual and local experiences in ... Read more

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  • Geographies of Obesity

    Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic

    by Karen Witten ...
    Over the past two decades, rates of adult and childhood obesity in the developed world have risen sharply. By the year 2000, 65% of the United States population were overweight, 30% of these obese. Whilst medical treatment has tended to focus on individual habits of diet and exercise, this approach does little to account for globally increasing levels of obesity, and the external, environmental ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

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    Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    Series series Public Health and Health Promotion
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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

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