Critical Perspectives in Public Health

by Green; Judith

• ISBN13: 9780415409520
• ISBN10: 0415409527
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores the concept of ?critical? public health, at a point when many of its core concerns appear to have moved to the mainstream of health policy. Issues such as addressing health inequalities and their socioeconomic determinants, and the inclusion of public voices in policy-making, are now emerging as key policy aims for health systems across Europe and North America. Combining analytical introductory chapters, edited versions of influential articles from the journal Critical Public Health and specially commissioned review articles, this volume examines the contemporary roles of ?critical voices? in public health research and practice from a range of disciplines and contexts. The book covers many of the pressing concerns for public health practitioners and researchers including: the implications of new genetic technologies for public health the impact of globalization on local practice the politics of citizen participation in health programmes the impact of car-centred transport systems on health the ethics of evaluation methods and the persistence of health inequalities. Critical Perspectives in Public Health is organized into sections covering four key themes in public health: social inequalities; evidence for practice; globalization; technologies and the environment. With contributions from a range of countries including the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia and South Africa, it provides an accessible overview for students, practitioners and researchers in public health, health promotion, health policy and related fields.

Table of Contents

Introduction: from critique to engagement: why critical public health matters	p. 1
Unfair cases: social inequalities in health	p. 13
Introduction	p. 14
Inequalities in health in developing countries: challenges for public health research	p. 25
Social capital and the third way in public health	p. 35
HIV infection in women: social inequalities as determinants of risk	p. 47
Poverty, policy and pathogenesis: economic justice and public health in the USA	p. 66
Making traces: evidence for practice and evaluation	p. 79
Introduction	p. 80
Strong theory, flexible methods: evaluating complex community-based initiatives	p. 93
Developing community and agency engagement in an action research study in South Wales	p. 104
How useful are trials of public health interventions? An examination of two trials of HIV prevention	p. 113
Understanding and improving the health of workers in the new economy: a call for a participator dialogue-based approach to work-health research	p. 123
Colonising places: public health and globalisation	p. 135
Introduction	p. 136
Globalisation and health	p. 151
Interrogating globalisation, health and development: towards a comprehensive framework for research, policy and political action	p. 162
Medicine keepers: issues in indigenous health	p. 180
The politics of female genital cutting in displaced communities	p. 192
Edgy spaces: technology, the environment and public health	p. 203
Introduction	p. 204
Antibiotic resistance: an exemplary case of medical nemesis	p. 213
Genetics, governance and ethics	p. 219
Moving bodies: injury, dis-ease and the social organisation of space	p. 228
Epidemic space	p. 236
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