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oapen-20.500.12657-633092024-03-28T08:18:55Z Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health La Placa, Vincent Morgan, Julia Social Science Disease & Health Issues Medical Public Health thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing.Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation to global public health, such as ethics, economics, health disparities, and globalisation. The second part comprises chapters exploring specific challenges, such as designing and implementing public health interventions, the role of social enterprise, climate change, sustainability and health, oral health, violence, palliative care, mental health, loneliness, nutrition, and embracing diverse genders. These chapters build on, and apply, the theoretical frameworks laid out in part one, linking the substantive content to broader contexts.Taking an inclusive, global approach, this is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of global health, public health, and medical sociology. 2023-06-07T05:38:45Z 2023-06-07T05:38:45Z 2022 book 9780367652111 9780367652098 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63309 eng application/epub+zip application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.epub 9781000713329.pdf Routledge 10.4324/9781003128373 4c14f4a5-34de-43d5-970e-3cdacbe7d859 10.4324/9781003128373 Taylor & Francis b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780367652111 9780367652098 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing.Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation to global public health, such as ethics, economics, health disparities, and globalisation. The second part comprises chapters exploring specific challenges, such as designing and implementing public health interventions, the role of social enterprise, climate change, sustainability and health, oral health, violence, palliative care, mental health, loneliness, nutrition, and embracing diverse genders. These chapters build on, and apply, the theoretical frameworks laid out in part one, linking the substantive content to broader contexts.Taking an inclusive, global approach, this is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of global health, public health, and medical sociology.
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