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.
Youth Drinking Cultures in a Digital World: Alcohol, Social Media and Cultures of Intoxication
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonia Lyons, Tim McCreanor, Ian Goodwin, Helen Moewaka Barnes
May 07, 2019
Social media has helped boost the culture of intoxication, a central aspect of young people’s social lives in many Western countries. Initial research suggests that these technologies enable highly-nuanced, targeted marketing and innovations – creating new virtual spaces that alter the dynamics and...
Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Herrick, David Reubi
April 11, 2019
To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplinary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health. However, the compulsion to do and understand global health emerges largely from contexts that geography has long engaged with: urbanisation, globalisation, political economy, ...
Health and Health Promotion in Prisons
1st Edition
By Michael Ross
August 30, 2017
The impact of the United Nations "Healthy Prisons" initiative has highlighted the importance of health and health promotion in incarcerated populations. This invaluable book discusses the many health and medical issues that arise or are introduced into prisons from the perspective of both inmates ...
Gender-based Violence and Public Health: International perspectives on budgets and policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Keerty Nakray
June 16, 2017
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 specific attention to ...
Global Health Disputes and Disparities: A Critical Appraisal of International Law and Population Health
1st Edition
By Dru Bhattacharya
June 16, 2017
Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial ...
Organisational Capacity Building in Health Systems
1st Edition
By Niyi Awofeso
May 24, 2017
Capacity building – which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results – is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing ...
Assembling Health Rights in Global Context: Genealogies and Anthropologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex Mold, David Reubi
September 03, 2015
What do we mean when we talk about rights in relation to health? Where does the language of health rights come from, and what are the implications of using such a discourse? During the last 20 years there have been an increasing number of initiatives and efforts – for instance in relation to HIV/...
International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Libby Sallnow, Suresh Kumar, Allan Kellehear
February 13, 2013
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. The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they ...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity: Morality, Mortality and the New Public Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton, Amy Salmon
November 14, 2012
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an ‘unholy trinity’ of lifestyle behaviours with apparently ...
Planning in Health Promotion Work: An Empowerment Model
1st Edition
By Roar Amdam
September 25, 2012
Community development, planning and partnerships have become important terms in health promotion but, up until now, debate around these concepts have been discussed more in planning science than in public health literature. Roar Amdam draws on theories and new empirical evidence from local, ...
Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea
May 16, 2012
Over the last century public health efforts, such as immunization, safer food practices, public health education and promotion, improved sanitation, and water purification have been very successful in eradicating and controlling a host of diseases. The result has been a dramatic improvement in ...