Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health

Gender-based Violence and Public Health

International perspectives on budgets and policies

Edited by Keerty Nakray

Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to...

Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

Organisational Capacity Building in Health Systems

By Niyi Awofeso

Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

Capacity building – which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results – is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing...

Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity

Morality, Mortality and the New Public Health

Edited by Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, Amy Salmon

Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an ‘unholy trinity’ of lifestyle behaviours with apparently...

Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge

Population Mental Health

Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

Edited by Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea

Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

Over the last century public health efforts, such as immunization, safer food practices, public health education and promotion, improved sanitation, and water purification have been very successful in eradicating and controlling a host of diseases. The result has been a dramatic improvement in...

Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge

International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care

Edited by Libby Sallnow, Suresh Kumar, Allan Kellehear

Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach. The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they...

Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge

Planning in Health Promotion Work

An Empowerment Model

By Roar Amdam

Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

Community development, planning and partnerships have become important terms in health promotion but, up until now, debate around these concepts have been discussed more in planning science than in public health literature. Roar Amdam draws on theories and new empirical evidence from local,...

Published September 27th 2010 by Routledge