Contemporary health studies : an introduction / Louise Warwick-Booth, Ruth Cross and Diane Lowcock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Understanding and Promoting Health -- 1. What is Health? -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- Definitions of health -- Theoretical perspectives -- medical model -- social model -- holistic model -- biopsychosocial model -- Different perspectives -- Social construction -- moral phenomenon -- Lay perspectives -- Understandings according to culture -- Understandings across the lifespan -- Why is this important for understanding health? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 2. Contemporary Threats to Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- Conceptualizing the identifying of threats -- Nature and determinants of health -- Magnitude and severity -- Media construction and moral panics -- Communicable and non-communicable diseases -- Contemporary threats -- Why and how is all this important? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 3. Investigating Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is research? -- Philosophical frameworks -- Research question/s -- Quantitative research -- Nature of quantitative research -- Quantitative methods -- Quantitative sampling -- Steps in quantitative sampling -- Quantitative analysis -- Qualitative research -- Nature of qualitative research -- Qualitative methods -- Qualitative sampling -- Qualitative analysis -- Differences between quantitative and qualitative research -- Ethics of research -- Evidence-based practice -- Finding evidence -- Appraising evidence -- Applying evidence to practice -- Why is understanding research important? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- pt. II Disciplinary Context -- 4. Sociology and Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is sociology? -- Sociology of health and illness -- Functionalist theory -- Symbolic interactionism -- Marxist theory -- Feminist theory -- Social constructionism -- Post structuralism -- Society as a determinant of health -- Sociological critique of health promotion -- Why is this important for understanding health? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 5. Social Anthropology and Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is social anthropology? -- Culture and health -- Experiencing illness -- Culture and treatment -- Cultural representations -- Culture and mental illness -- Cultural influences upon health -- Why is this important to health studies? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 6. Health Psychology -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is health psychology? -- Health behaviour -- Different kinds of behaviour -- Determinants of behaviour -- Self efficacy -- Beliefs about control -- Health Belief Model -- Research and the Health Belief Model -- Theory of Planned Behaviour -- Research and the Theory of Planned Behaviour -- Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) -- Stages of Change Model -- Critiques of theory -- Health Action Model -- How is health psychology important? -- Critical perspectives -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 7. Health Promotion -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is health promotion? -- Origins of health promotion -- Tools for understanding health promotion -- Tannahill's (1985) model -- Beattie's (1991) model -- Naidoo and Wills' (2000) typology -- Tones and Tilford's (1994) empowerment model -- Caplan and Holland's (1990) four perspectives -- Principles and values -- Focus on upstream approaches -- Non- victim blaming approaches -- Evidence base -- Participation and empowerment -- Equity -- Ethical practice -- Focus on salutogenic models -- Critiques of health promotion -- Contribution of health promotion -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- pt. III Influences upon Health -- 8. Individual Characteristics and their Influence upon Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is this all about? -- How do individual characteristics influence health? -- Foetal development -- Foetal programming -- Age -- Biology and biological sex -- Gender -- Hereditary and genetic factors -- Personality -- Self-esteem -- Nature/nurture debate and individual characteristics -- What does this mean? -- life span perspective -- How is this relevant? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 9. Social and Community Characteristics and their Influence upon Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- Social and community networks -- Social support -- Relationship between social support and health -- Social capital -- Measuring social capital -- Trust and reciprocity -- Civic engagement -- Social networks -- Relationship between social capital and health -- Settings for social and community networks -- family -- Faith-based organizations -- Implications for policy and practice -- Social and community networks -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 10. Physical Environment and its Influence on Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is this all about? -- Physical environment (living and working conditions) -- Agriculture and food production -- Water and sanitation -- Housing -- working environment -- Unemployment -- Education -- Health care services -- What does this mean? -- How is this relevant? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 11. Policy Influences upon Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- What is social policy? -- Social policy as a determinant of health -- Current policy issues -- British Welfare State -- Ideological and political values -- Health services as a determinant of health -- Healthy public policy -- broader policy environment -- importance of fiscal policy -- Social policy and health studies -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 12. Global Context of Health -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- Why is global health important? -- How does the global context influence health? -- Globalization -- Migration -- Trade -- environment -- Inequalities -- Financing and health care -- Health governance and policy -- Why is all of this important? -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- 13. Synthesizing Perspectives: Case Studies for Action -- Key learning outcomes -- Overview -- Malaria case study -- Strategies to tackle malaria -- Cervical cancer case study -- Strategies to tackle cervical cancer -- Health and neighbourhoods case study -- Strategies to improve neighbourhood health -- determinants of health ̀rainbow' -- Key strengths of the rainbow model -- How the rainbow model might be improved.