"The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strat…
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"That health has many social determinants is established and a myriad of structural factors are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including…
"That health has many social determinants is established and a myriad of structural factors are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including…
"That health has many social determinants is established and a myriad of structural factors are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including…
Community and public health nursing
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The long separation of health and International Relations, as distinct academic fields and policy arenas, has now dramatically changed. Health, concerned with the body, mind and spirit, has traditionally focused on disease and infirmity, whilst International Relations has been d…
"Public health surveillance is the systematic, ongoing assessment of the health of a community, based on the collection, interpretation, and use of health data. Surveillance provides information necessary for public health decision making and interventions. In the third edition …
"Any discussion about urban health will begin with the fact that most of humanity now lives in urban areas. About a decade into the 21st century, the urban portion of the global population surpassed 50 percent. This shift to majority urban will come last to Africa, where the rat…
The authors deal not only with finding and using scientific evidence, but also with implementation and evaluation of interventions that generate new evidence on effectiveness. Each chapter covers the basic issues and provides multiple examples to illustrate important concepts.
Public health decisions are often based on short-term demands rather than long-term study, and policies & programs are sometimes developed from anecdotal evidence. To enhance evidence-based practice, this book provides practical guidance on the methodology and evaluation of such…
"What is public health? To some, it is about the infrastructure for health - drains, water, food, housing. These require engineering and expert management. To others, it's about the State using medicine or health education to prevent the public harming itself through poor lifest…
Mixed-methods research in wellbeing and health
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