Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Public Health

Based on author's presentations at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association.--Acknowledgements, page [xi].

Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual's physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying attention to budgets, policies and practice and drawing on an international selection of empirical studies.

Drawing on theoretical and empirical evidence from local, regional and international planning and public health, this title develops a model for health promotion, empowerment planning, that combines various approaches to enable people to take responsibility for their own health and for individual and collective capacity building.

Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions. During a crisis, however, global health actions - including planning and organizing, communicating about risk, and cost-benefit evaluations - aren't usually part of single, integrated global response.

This book aims to draw attention to and showcase the wealth of existing and emergent geographical contributions to what has recently been termed 'critical global health studies'.

Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.

Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual's physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying attention to budgets, policies and practice and drawing on an international selection of empirical studies.

This cutting edge collection of essays explores recent developments in alcohol, tobacco and obesity in comparative, international and interdisciplinary perspective.

Health Rights in Global Context provides an in-depth discussion of the historical, social and political context of rights in health and develops much needed critical perspectives on the human rights approach to global health.

This book focuses on how pervasive social networking technologies contribute to drinking cultures. It brings together international contributions from leading researchers to explore how new technologies are reconfiguring the key themes, traditional interests, practices and concerns of alcohol related research with young people.