Contemporary health studies : an introduction / by Louise Warwick-Booth, Ruth Cross, Diane Lowcock.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2012.Description: 320 pContent type:- 9780745650210 (hbk.) :
- 9780745650227 (pbk.) :
- 0745650228
- 9780745650210
- 074565021X
- 9780745650227
- 306.461 WAR 23
- RA418
- 2012 H-090
- WA 900.1
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[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
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.