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008			111031s2012 enka b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2011045337
020			_a9781844078318 (hbk)
020			_a9781844078325 (pbk.)
020			_a9780203134801 (ebk)
035			_a(DNLM)101572090
040			_aDNLM/DLC _cDLC _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aRA 565 .R39 2012
060	1	0	_aWA 30.5
082	0	0	_a362.1 _223
100	1		_aRayner, Geof.
245	1	0	_aEcological public health : _breshaping the conditions for good health / _cGeof Rayner and Tim Lang.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2012.
300			_axxii, 409 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 354-401) and index.
520			_a"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 lifestyles. This book, part historical, part prospective, argues that public health needs an overhaul. It should return to and modernize itself around ecological principles. Ecological public health thinking addresses what are described as four levels of existence: the material, biological, social and cognitive worlds. The long tradition of public health has always been reactive, responding to and transforming the relationship between people, their circumstances and the biological world of nature and bodies. The authors show how twenty-first century public health is being shaped by a number of long-term transitions, some long recognized, others not. These transitions are demographic, epidemiological, urban, energy, economic, nutrition, biological, cultural and democracy itself. Facing them all is required if the health of people and the planet are to be integrated. Ecological public health thinking, the authors argue, has been marginalized partly because it has lacked clear analysis, and partly because of the scale and complexity of the issues which need to be addressed. Public health thinking has partly lost its way because it has been subsumed into the problems rather than championing solutions. Often linked to the State, it has adapted to consumerism rather than championing citizenship. Returning to ecological public health requires stronger and more daring combinations of interdisciplinary work, movements and professions, and a reinvigoration of institutional purpose"--Provided by publisher.
650	1	2	_aEnvironmental Health.
650	2	2	_aEcological and Environmental Phenomena.
650	2	2	_aHealth Promotion.
650	2	2	_aPublic Health.
700	1		_aLang, Tim.
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942			_2lcc _cBOOKS _hRA 565 .R39 2012
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