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Priorities for health promotion and public health : explaining the evidence for disease prevention and health promotion / edited by Sally Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Canterbury Public Health
- Canterbury public health series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health promotion--Great Britain.
- Health promotion.
- Medicine, Preventive--Great Britain.
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Public health--Great Britain.
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 507 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the evidence behind the UK's public health priorities into one comprehensible textbook. Taking one theme per chapter, the book examines the social and environmental influences that shape people's health; health inequalities; poverty and health; mental, emotional and spiritual health; sexual health; physical inactivity; diet; tobacco; alcohol; drugs; weight; cardiovascular disease; cancer; diabetes and dementia. The book takes a holistic approach, combining scientific and epidemiological evidence with the subjective experiences of those who undergo these health journeys. Each chapter explains the causes of poor health, the evidence behind the recommendations for good health and ends by demonstrating the health benefits of positive action. This is a core text for those studying health promotion or public health, and a supplementary text for students of healthcare and social care. The book focusses on adults' health in the UK, with examples from the four nations, and provides some contextual international information where relevant. Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health is an ideal companion for busy practitioners who work across the wider sectors that support people's health and wellbeing. It is also a core textbook for students new to health promotion and public health"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Part I Social and environmental determinants of health
- 1 Social context of health and illness
- Key points
- Introduction
- Traditional model
- Personalistic beliefs
- Naturalistic beliefs
- Humours
- Theory of the 'airs'
- Contagion
- Miasma
- Medical model
- The rise of medical science
- Smallpox
- Cholera
- Germ theory
- Wider scientific developments
- Medical influence on healthcare
- Disease prevention
- The medical model
- Challenges to the medical model
- Social model
- A new era for health
- Social, economic and physical environment
- Psychosocial factors
- Structural factors
- Social determinants of health
- Social-ecological models
- Life course approach
- Lay perceptions
- Models of health and illness today
- Low-grade inflammation: medical model
- Epigenetics: social-ecological model/life course approach
- Adverse childhood experiences: social-ecological model/life course approach
- Mindfulness: traditional model
- Why understanding models of health and illness matters
- Summary
- Further reading
- 2 Environment and health
- Climate change
- Global warming
- Consequences of climate change for people's health
- Environmental warming and heatwaves
- Air quality and emissions
- Ultraviolet radiation
- Heavy rainfall/flash floods
- Drought
- Freezing weather
- Allergens and vector-borne diseases
- Conflict and displacement
- International response to climate change
- Air pollution
- Air pollutants
- Particulates
- Ground-level ozone
- Petrol and diesel
- Tackling air pollution
- Built environment
- Obesogenic environments
- Environments and health
- A healthy built environment.
- Housing
- Physical structure of housing
- Lead
- Humidity and damp
- Carbon monoxide
- Radon gas
- Cold homes
- The psychosocial environment of housing
- Homelessness, rough sleeping and changing accommodation
- Housing stock
- Location
- Healthy housing
- A healthy environment
- Environmental stewardship
- Sustainability
- Three pillars of sustainability
- Active travel
- 'Think global act local'
- Sustainable development goals
- Useful websites
- References
- 3 Inequalities in health
- Health inequalities and health inequities
- Health inequalities
- Social gradient of health
- Health inequities
- Examples of inequalities in health
- Inequalities in health between places
- International inequalities
- Regional inequalities
- Health-related behaviours in places
- Inequalities in health between people
- Ethnicity
- Sex and gender
- sex
- gender
- Education
- Income
- Occupation and socio-economic position
- Unequal societies
- Social exclusion and vulnerable communities
- Intersectionality
- Causes of inequalities in health
- Social determinants of health inequality and inequity
- Life course approach to understanding inequalities in health
- Fair Society Healthy Lives
- Health Equity in England
- Why health equality matters
- 4 Poverty and health
- Defining and measuring poverty
- Unidimensional approaches to poverty
- Absolute poverty/absolute low income
- Housing costs
- Basic needs
- Relative poverty/relative low income
- Persistent poverty/persistent low income
- Wealth
- Time poverty
- Multidimensional approaches to poverty
- Poverty and society
- Relative deprivation
- UK household material deprivation
- UK indicators of deprivation.
- Social Metrics Commission Poverty Measurement Framework for the UK
- Poverty in the UK
- Poverty rates
- Depth of poverty
- Persistence of poverty
- Lived experience of poverty
- Future poverty
- Poverty and health
- Deprivation and premature death
- Poverty and mental health
- Food insecurity
- Public transport
- Housing
- Decent homes
- Fuel poverty
- Homelessness
- Reframing poverty in the UK
- 5 Mental, emotional and spiritual health
- Defining mental, emotional and spiritual health
- Mental health
- Mental disorders
- Mental health problems
- Mental wellbeing
- Emotional health
- Emotional intelligence
- Emotional-social intelligence
- Emotional literacy
- Spiritual health
- Spirit
- Spirituality and religion
- Disorders and distress
- Stress
- Trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Loss and bereavement
- Suicide
- Social isolation and loneliness
- Social exclusion
- Prejudice, stigma and discrimination
- Stigma and mental health problems
- Inequalities in health
- Communities and mental, emotional and spiritual health
- Part II Health-related behaviours
- 6 Sexual health
- Defining sexual health
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Chlamydia
- Gonorrhoea
- Syphilis
- Genital herpes
- Genital warts
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Unintended pregnancy and abortion
- Sexual violence
- Sociocultural aspects of sexual health
- Sexual attitudes and behaviours
- Cultural and religious norms
- Internet and digital media
- Positive sexual health: sexual rights and relationships
- References.
- 7 Physical inactivity and health
- The rise of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour
- Reasons for the rise in physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour
- Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour and health
- Early studies into physical activity/inactivity and cardiovascular disease
- Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour and early death
- Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour and disease
- Muscular skeletal conditions
- Type 2 diabetes
- Weight gain and obesity
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cancer
- Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour and mental health problems
- The experience of being sedentary
- Economic costs of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour
- Measuring physical inactivity, activity and sedentary behaviour
- Current levels of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour in the UK
- Physical inactivity
- Sedentary behaviour
- Travel
- UK Physical Activity Guidelines
- UK guidelines for promoting activity
- Intensity of physical activity
- UK guidelines for reducing sedentary behaviour
- Benefits of increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour
- Protection against disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Osteoporosis
- Promotion of mental and emotional health
- 8 Diet and health
- Public health nutrition
- Nutritional content of foods and drinks
- The UK's diet: what we are eating
- Dietary Reference Values (DRVs): what we should be eating
- Energy
- Macronutrients and health
- Protein
- Complementation
- Carbohydrates
- Sugars
- Starches
- Dietary fibre
- Fats
- Saturated fats
- Unsaturated fats
- Trans fats
- Essential fats
- Heated fats
- Micronutrients and health.
- Rickets, osteomalacia and osteoporosis
- Folate, megaloblastic anaemia and neural tube defects
- Iron-deficiency anaemia
- Dietary supplements
- Antioxidants
- Salt
- Food and health
- Processed foods
- Red and processed meat
- Fruit and vegetables
- Preventing diet-related disease and promoting good health
- Low-grade inflammation
- Weight
- Sugary drinks
- Glycaemic index and glycaemic load
- Disease prevention in pregnancy
- Cognitive impairment and dementias
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Food-based guidelines for healthy eating
- Mediterranean diet
- Eatwell Guide
- Sustainable healthy eating
- Healthy eating in context
- Marketing and health claims
- Organic
- Probiotics
- Fortified foods
- Functional foods and super foods
- Challenges for public health nutrition
- Research
- Guidelines
- Population versus individual
- Nanny state versus individual choice
- Food is life
- 9 Tobacco and health
- Tobacco
- The tobacco industry
- Tobacco wars
- Smoking tobacco
- Smoking tobacco products
- Cigarettes
- Cigars
- Pipes
- Bidis and kreteks
- Waterpipes
- Prevalence of smoking tobacco
- Psychosocial reasons for smoking tobacco
- Smoking tobacco and health
- Vaping tobacco
- Heated tobacco products (HTPs)
- Prevalence of vaping heated tobacco products
- Vaping heated tobacco products and health
- Smokeless tobacco
- Smokeless tobacco products
- Prevalence of using smokeless tobacco products
- Smokeless tobacco and health
- Non-tobacco products
- Nicotine-replacement therapy
- Vaping non-tobacco products: e-cigarettes
- Prevalence of vaping e-cigarettes
- Reasons for vaping e-cigarettes.
- Non-tobacco-products and health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-367-82368-3
- 1-000-36183-7
- 1-000-36189-6
- 9780367823689
- OCLC:
- 1241449766
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