Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health
ISBN: 9781412957045 | 1412957044
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 1/21/2009
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This book is intended as a core textbook for courses in public health that examines current issues in health from a social and behavioral science perspective. It is a cross-disciplinary course (public health, medical sociology, health psychology, medical anthropology) and thus there are many ways to teach the course based on a particular instructor's perspective. The authors wrote the book because they were dissatisfied with the way other texts apply social science to public health and found that many texts being used were from related fields s... MORE
| Introduction and Overview | |
| Why Study Social and Behavioral Factors in Health? | |
| Historical Perspectives on Population and Disease | |
| Social Epidemiology | |
| Theoretical Foundations | |
| Behavioral and Social Science Theory | |
| Health and Illness Behavior | |
| The Social Environment and Health | |
| Sociocultural Context of Health | |
| ... MORE | |
| Comparative Health Cultures | |
| Health Disparities, Diversity, and Cultural Competence | |
| Special Populations Through the Life Cycle | |
| Reproductive Health | |
| Adolescent Health | |
| Aging and Public Health | |
| Intervention, Methods, and Practice | |
| Planning Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs | |
| Community-Based Approaches to Health Promotion | |
| Social Marketing in Public Health | |
| Approaches to Policy and Advocacy | |
| Special Topics | |
| Childhood Overweight & Obesity | |
| Mental Health and Illness | |
| Prevention of Unintentional Injuries | |
| Violence and Public Health | |
| Occupational Health | |
| Afterword: New Directions | |
| Environmental Health **DROPPED** | |
| Ethical Issues in Public Health **DROPPED** | |
| Social Marketing in Public Health **DROPPED | |
| Community-Based Approaches to Health Promotion **DROPPED** | |
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