TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warwick-Booth,Louise
AU  - Cross,Ruth
AU  - Lowcock,Diane
TI  - Contemporary health studies: an introduction 
SN  - 9780745650210 (hardback)
AV  - RA 
U1  - 306.461 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Health
KW  - World health
KW  - Health Status Indicators
KW  - Health Promotion
KW  - Socioeconomic Factors
N1  - 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
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