TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warwick-Booth,Louise
AU  - Cross,Ruth
AU  - Lowcock,Diane
AU  - Cross,Ruth
AU  - Lowcock,Diane
TI  - Contemporary health studies: an introduction 
SN  - 9780745650210 (hbk.) :
AV  - RA418 
U1  - 306.461 WAR 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity
KW  - Health
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Public health & preventive medicine
KW  - thema
KW  - Economics
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - fast
KW  - Health Status Indicators
KW  - Health Promotion
KW  - Socioeconomic Factors
KW  - Global Health
N1  - Comprend des re�f. bibliogr. et un index; [Table of Contents] Introduction. -- Part 1: Understanding and promoting health. -- 1. What is health?. -- 2. Contemporary Threats to Health. -- 3. Investigating health. -- Part 2: Disciplinary context. -- 4. Sociology. -- 5. Social anthropology and health. -- 6. Health Psychology. -- 7. Health Promotion. -- Part 3: Influences upon Health. -- 8. Individual Characteristics which influence health. -- 9. Community Characteristics and their influence upon health. -- 11. Policy Influences upon health. -- 12. The global context of health. -- 13. Synthesising Perspectives: Case Studies for Action. -- Glossary. -- References
N2  - An accessible introduction to all aspects of current debates surrounding the social-scientific dimensions of health, this book is divided into three sections which map out the field, examine its disciplinary underpinnings and then focus on specific determinants of health
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