A reader in promoting public health : challenge and controversy / edited by Jenny Douglas [and five others].

Previous edition: 2007.

At foot of title: The Open University.

Part I.Back to the future? Refelctions on multidisciplinary public health. Introduction -- 1.The rise of modern multidisciplinary public health -- 2.Millennium Report to Sir Edwin Chadwick -- 3.How is health experience? -- 4.Older people\'s health: applying Antonovsky\'s Salutogenic paradigm -- 5.Inequalities and ethnicity: evidence and intervention -- 6.Poverty and health: globals and national pattersn -- 7.Health impact assessment: a practitioner\' s view -- 8.Health promotion: not drowning but waving? -- 9.Putting social marketing into practice -- Part II.Reserach for evidence-based practice -- 10.Dilemmas in public health research: methodologies and ethical practice -- 11.The evaluation of health promotion practice: twenty-first century debates on evidence and effectiveness -- 12.Epidemiology - to be taken care with -- 13.Feminist research and health -- 14.Researching the views of diabetes service users from South Asian backgrounds: a reflection on some of the issues -- 15.Setting priorities in public health research -- 16.What would the Ottawa Charter look like if it were wirtten today? -- 17.Prisons in England and Wales: an important public health opportunity? -- 17.Prisons in England and Wales: an important public health opportunity? -- 18.Considerations in the prevention of obesity among children and adolescentsFirst, do no harm -- 19.Global public health -- 20.Terrorism and public health -- 21.Global health promotion: how can we strengthen governance and build effective strategies? -- 22.Perceptions of community partcipation and health gain in a community project for the South Asian population : a qualitative study -- 23.Healthy nightclubs and recreational substance use: from a harm minimisation to a healthy settings approach -- 24.Dirty whores and invisible men: sex work and the public health -- 25.Does social capital have a role to play in the helath of communities? -- 26.Evaluating the empowering potential of community-based health schemes: the case of community health policies in the UK since 1997 -- 27.Promoting social responsibility for health: health impact assessment and healthy public policy at the community level. Maurice B. Mittlemark -- Part V.Public health for the twenty-first century: whose voices? Whose values? -- 28.Health promotion, globalisation and health -- 29.The market-dominated future of public health? -- 30.Yoga and promoting public health -- 31.Death and contagion: contaminating bodies -- 32.Disability rights, genetics and public health -- 33.Mental health promotion -- 34.Community regeneration: from apathy to anger to positive energy.

Developing readers' understanding of the dynamic and challenging field of public health, this title offers an overview of the development of public health, an exploration of the trends, and a wealth of material for fresh debates.