Routledge Studies in Public Health
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in Public Health series is a forum for the discussion of the latest and most important ideas and issues in public health. The series presents the work of both well-established and emerging scholars across the globe, offering a truly international perspective, and is important reading for all serious students, researchers and practitioners within public health.
Public Health, Humanities and Magical Realism: A Creative-Relational Approach to Researching Human Experience
1st Edition
By Marisa de Andrade
August 26, 2024
This book calls for a re-conceptualisation of the public health evidence-base to include crucial forms of creative and relational data about people’s lived experiences that cannot be accessed through the biomedical approach to generating and using evidence. Drawing from the author’s ethical, ...
Conceptualising Public Health: Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Johannes Kananen, Sophy Bergenheim, Merle Wessel
May 31, 2023
In Germanic and Nordic languages, the term for ‘public health’ literally translates to ‘people’s health’, for example Volksgesundheit in German, folkhälsa in Swedish and kansanterveys in Finnish. Covering a period stretching from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this book ...
Dementia in Prison: An Ethical Framework to Support Research, Practice and Prisoners
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Brooke
May 31, 2023
This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing. Going beyond exploring the need to understand dementia within prison populations, it argues that healthcare workers and prison staff must ensure that prisoners developing dementia during ...
Empowerment, Health Promotion and Young People: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
By Grace Spencer
May 31, 2023
Globally, young people’s health is an increasing priority area for health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, and concepts of empowerment feature strongly in international public health discourses on young people’s health. Yet the concept of empowerment remains under-theorized, and its ...
Health Norms and the Governance of Global Development: The Invention of Global Health
1st Edition
By Anders Granmo, Pieter Fourie
May 31, 2023
This book maps the emergence of health in global development discourse and governance since 1990. It argues that health norms have emerged, diffused, and subsequently become internalised through the various direct and indirect negotiation processes that created the global development goals. Covid-...
Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics: Social science perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mathilde Bourrier, Nathalie Brender, Claudine Burton-Jeangros
May 31, 2023
Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions, aimed at mitigating the spread of disease in a globalized world. During a crisis, however, global health actions �€“ including planning and organizing, communicating about risk, and cost�€“benefit evaluations �€“ aren�€�t ...
Public Health Evaluation and the Social Determinants of Health
1st Edition
By Allyson Kelley
May 31, 2023
Compelling evidence shows health disparities are the result of inequalities in income, education, limited access to medical care, substandard social environments, and poor economic conditions. This book introduces these social determinants of health (SDOH), discusses how they relate to public ...
Sustainable Sexual Health: Analysing the Implementation of the SDGs
1st Edition
By Tony Sandset, Eivind Engebretsen, Kristin Heggen
May 31, 2023
This book provides a textual analysis of the implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in health care. Using sexual health as a case study, the authors apply Foucault’s notions of biopower and biopolitics to discuss the power struggle between local needs and wants and ...
Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-Human Worlds
1st Edition
By Andrew Russell
March 31, 2021
Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, ...
Global Health and Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Colleen O'Manique, Pieter Fourie
December 09, 2019
The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the securitization of health on different bodies,...
Women's Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon Adams, Amie Steel, Alex Broom, Jane Frawley
December 09, 2019
Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business internationally, in particular with regards to a range of women’s health issues. With this context in mind, Women's Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine constitutes a valuable and timely resource for those looking to ...
Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media
1st Edition
By Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Yaffa Shir-Raz
May 23, 2019
In a digital world where the public’s voice is growing increasingly strong, how can health experts best exert influence to contain the global spread of infectious diseases? Digital media sites provide an important source of health information, however are also powerful platforms for the public to ...