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  • Smoking Geographies

    Space, Place and Tobacco

    by Ross Barnett, Graham Moon, Jamie Pearce, Lee Thompson, Liz Twigg ...
    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

    $33.00 USD

  • Health in Hard Times

    Austerity and Health Inequalities

    by Nasima Ahkter, Amy Greer Murphy, Adetayo Kasim, Dr Jon Warren, Kate Mattheys, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ramjee Bhandari, Michael Langthorne ...
    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

    $44.99 USD

  • 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

    $72.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Health Geography

    Edited by Valorie A. Crooks, Gavin J. Andrews, Jamie Pearce ...
    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

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    by Justin Parkhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills ...
    Series series Public Health and Health Promotion
    This package provides you with the book plus the eBook – giving you the printed book and also giving access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Social Aspects Of Health, Illness And Healthcare

    by Mary Larkin ...
    This book fills a gap for an introductory text that offers broad coverage of the sociological issues that are relevant to health students coming to the theoretical and experiential aspects of health and illness for the first time. ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy

    Edited by Dikaios Sakellariou, Nick Pollard, Frank Kronenberg ...
    This challenging and innovative book explores the political aspects of occupational therapy. It looks at how practitioners may develop political awareness in order to aid community development. A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy is about maximizing the potential impact of occupational therapists' engagements and ensuring the profession is working towards the contruction of a civic ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Urban Health and Society

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice

    Edited by Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert ...
    Series Book 17 - Public Health/Vulnerable Populations
    Praise for Urban Health and Society"This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Public Health

    Local and Global Perspectives

    Edited by Pranee Liamputtong ...
    Public Health: Local and Global Perspectives presents a comprehensive introduction to public health issues and concepts in the Australian and international contexts. It provides students with fundamental knowledge of the public health field, including frameworks, theories, key organisations and contemporary issues. The third edition features a new chapter on the public health workforce and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ageing and Place

    Edited by Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'.An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews and Phillips have together edited a valuable information and reference source for those with interests ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives in Public Health

    Edited by Judith Green, Ronald Labonté ...
    This book explores the concept of ‘critical’ public health, at a point when many of its core concerns appear to have moved to the mainstream of health policy. Issues such as addressing health inequalities and their socioeconomic determinants, and the inclusion of public voices in policy-making, are now emerging as key policy aims for health systems across Europe and North America.Combining ... Read more

    $59.99 USD