Public Health and Global Health
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Becoming a Public Health Practitioner
Delivering your Potential to Improve and Protect the Health of your Community
What can you contribute to improving and protecting the health of your community? Public health is becoming an increasingly central area of healthcare practice and people working in public health come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. This practical and accessible book maps out the...
To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
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Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing
A Guide for Practitioners
Written by and on behalf of the Association of Occupational Health Nurse Practitioners (AOHNP). This textbook provides a practical guide for those training as, or practising within, occupational health nursing. Concerned with the health of the people at work and the effects of work on health and...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Key Themes in Public Health
Key Themes in Public Health consists of introductory short essays exploring fifty key themes and concepts in public health. Ranging from political and economic concern with improving population health and reducing health inequalities, to debates about how to protect the population from new health...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Structural Approaches in Public Health
That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors – social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental – are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of...
Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
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An Introduction to Global Health Ethics
The field of global health is expanding rapidly. An increasing number of trainees are studying and working with marginalized populations, often within low and middle-income countries. Such endeavours are beset by ethical dilemmas: mitigating power differentials, addressing cultural differences in...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Health and Health Promotion in Prisons
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
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Global Health
An Introduction to Current and Future Trends
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 and considers...
Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Ecological Public Health
Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health
What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...
Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health
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 diseases; from AIDS to malaria...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Health Promotion for Nurses
Theory and Practice
Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the nurse...
Published January 25th 2009 by Routledge
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Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse
Tackling the Health and Mental Health Effects
Domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, and sexual exploitation through prostitution, pornography and trafficking can have many significant adverse impacts on a survivor’s health and wellbeing, in the short, medium and long-term. Taking a life-course approach, the book...
Published September 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Violence and Abuse Issues
Cross-Cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services
After centuries of being considered a private matter in most societies, violence and its profound effect on the physical health, mental health, and social well-being of victims and their families, as well as on the assailants themselves, has started to take centre stage as a public issue of...
Published June 28th 2009 by Routledge
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Physical Activity and Health
The Evidence Explained, 2nd Edition
Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationships between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of important conditions. Now in a fully updated and revised edition,...
Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge
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Health and Poverty
Global Health Problems and Solutions
Winner of the 2011 British Medical Association Book Award - Health & Social Care category. There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and...
Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
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Influenza and Public Health
Learning from Past Pandemics
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also...
Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
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Health Impact Assessment
Principles and Practice
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is primarily concerned with the future consequences of plans, proposals and policies on the health of communities. It is a rapidly growing complement to Environmental Impact Assessment, increasingly mandated by national and international requirements. Guidelines have...
Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge