LEADER 04700oam 2200709I 450 001 9910815274103321 005 20240516193916.0 010 $a1-136-48270-9 010 $a1-280-66493-2 010 $a9786613641861 010 $a0-203-13480-X 010 $a1-136-48271-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203134801 035 $a(CKB)2670000000204029 035 $a(EBL)957547 035 $a(OCoLC)798533284 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000677338 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11437038 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677338 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10694631 035 $a(PQKB)10382380 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000701181 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12261326 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701181 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10674655 035 $a(PQKB)20767492 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC957547 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL957547 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10566648 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL364186 035 $a(OCoLC)794620382 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000204029 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|z#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEcological public health $ereshaping the conditions for good health /$fGeof Rayner and Tim Lang 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cEarthscan,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (433 pages) 311 1 $a1-84407-832-9 311 1 $a1-84407-831-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Ecological Public Health; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface: From the history to the future of public health; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I: Images and models of public health; 1. Introducing the notion of Ecological Public Health; 2. Defining public health; 3. The received wisdom of public health; Part II: The transitions to be addressed by public health; Introduction to Part II; 4. Demographic Transition; 5. Epidemiological and Health Transition; 6. Urban Transition; 7. Energy Transition; 8. Economic Transition; 9. Nutrition Transition; 10. Biological and Ecological Transition11. Cultural Transition; 12. Democratic Transition; Conclusion to Part II: an overview of the transitions; Part III: Reshaping the conditions for good health; 13. The implications of Ecological Public Health 330 $a"What is public health? To some, it is about the infrastructure for health - drains, water, food, housing. These require engineering and expert management. To others, it's about the State using medicine or health education to prevent the public harming itself through poor lifestyles. This book, part historical, part prospective, argues that public health needs an overhaul. It should return to and modernize itself around ecological principles. Ecological public health thinking addresses what are described as four levels of existence: the material, biological, social and cognitive worlds. The long tradition of public health has always been reactive, responding to and transforming the relationship between people, their circumstances and the biological world of nature and bodies. The authors show how twenty-first century public health is being shaped by a number of long-term transitions, some long recognized, others not. These transitions are demographic, epidemiological, urban, energy, economic, nutrition, biological, cultural and democracy itself. Facing them all is required if the health of people and the planet are to be integrated. Ecological public health thinking, the authors argue, has been marginalized partly because it has lacked clear analysis, and partly because of the scale and complexity of the issues which need to be addressed. Public health thinking has partly lost its way because it has been subsumed into the problems rather than championing solutions. Often linked to the State, it has adapted to consumerism rather than championing citizenship. Returning to ecological public health requires stronger and more daring combinations of interdisciplinary work, movements and professions, and a reinvigoration of institutional purpose"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aEnvironmental health 606 $aEnvironmental degradation$xHealth aspects 615 0$aEnvironmental health. 615 0$aEnvironmental degradation$xHealth aspects. 676 $a362.1 700 $aRayner$b Geof.$01681268 701 $aLang$b Tim$0145521 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bQCQU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815274103321 996 $aEcological public health$94050583 997 $aUNINA