Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The second edition of A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that explore and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public health. This thoroughly updated and revised new edition addresses contemporary issues that are high on the agenda of public health, and enables the reader to understand and negotiate this broad and dynamic field of study.

The book is organised into five sections, each with an accessible and student-friendly introduction that pulls together the key themes and issues:

- Back to the future? Reflections on multidisciplinary public health takes stock of the scope and ambition of contemporary public health;

- Research for evidence-based practice explores research methods, tools and techniques for developing effective public health practice;

- Promoting health through public policy examines policy challenges, responses and key debates at national, international and global level :

- Promoting public health at a local level explores public health and health promotion in a participatory and community context;

- Public health for the 21st century: whose voices? whose values? examines debates which expose alternative futures, priorities and boundaries for public health work.

This second edition includes new material on health inequalities, health protection, social marketing and health promotion, as well as highlighting the practical requirements of public health work through ′grass roots′ accounts of practice. It will be essential reading for all students of public health and health promotion, as well as for health and social care professionals.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction - Challenge and Controversy in Promoting Public Health
• Part 1 Back to the Future: Reflections on Multidisciplinary Public Health?
• Introduction
• The Rise of Modern Multidisciplinary Public Health
• Millennium Report to Sir Edwin Chadwick
• How Is Health Experienced?
• Older People's Health: Applying Antonovsky's Salutogenic Paradigm
• Inequalities and Ethnicity: Evidence and Intervention
• Poverty and Health: Global and National Patterns
• Health Impact Assessment: A Practitioner's View
• Health Promotion: Not Drowning but Waving?
• Putting Social Marketing into Practice
• Part 2 Research For Evidence-Based Practice
• Introduction
• Dilemmas in Public Health Research: Methodologies And Ethical Practice
• The Evaluation of Health Promotion Practice: 21st Century Debates on Evidence and Effectiveness
• Epidemiology - To Be Taken With Care
• Feminist Research and Health
• Researching the Views of Diabetes Service Users from South Asian Backgrounds: A Reflection on Some of the Issues
• Setting Priorities in Public Health Research
• Part 3 Promoting Public Health Through Public Policy
• Introduction
• What Would The Ottawa Charter Look Like If It Were Written Today?
• Prisons in England and Wales: An Important Public Health Opportunity?
• Considerations in the Prevention of Obesity among Children and Adolescents: First, Do No Harm
• Global Public Health
• Terrorism and Public Health
• Global Health Promotion: How Can We Strengthen Governance And Build Effective Strategies?
• Part 4 Promoting Public Health At A Local Level
• Introduction
• Perceptions of Community Participation and Health Gain in a Community Project for the South Asian Population: A Qualitative Study
• Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From A Harm Minimisation to A Healthy Settings Approach
• Dirty Whores and Invisible Men: Sex Work and The Public Health
• Does Social Capital Have A Role To Play In The Health Of Communities?
• Evaluating the Empowering Potential of Community-Based Health Schemes: The Case of Community Health Policies in the UK Since 1997
• Promoting Social Responsibility for Health: Health Impact Assessment and Healthy Public Policy at the Community Level
• Part 5 Public Health For the 21st Century: Whose Voices? Whose Values?
• Introduction
• Health Promotion, Globalisation and Health
• The Market Dominated Future of Public Health?
• Yoga and Promoting Public Health
• Death and Contagion: Contaminating Bodies
• Disability Rights, Genetics and Public Health
• Mental Health Promotion
• Community Regeneration: From Apathy to Anger to Positive Energy

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