Sustainability and Health: Supporting Global Ecological Integrity in Public Health
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1. Verfasser: Brown, Valerie A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2014
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Beschreibung:Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Learning Activities; Boxes and Figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Prologue: The way in; Chapter 1 Living: Public health and the future of life on the planet; 1.1 Health and sustainability: a new direction for public health; 1.2 Defining sustainable development: moving to sustainability; 1.3 New ideas for new public health: overview of recommended readings; 1.4 Integrative decision-making about place-based issues (D4P4): an open learning framework
1.5 Sustainability as public health practice: criteria for future-oriented practitionersChapter 2 Listening: Co-ordinating ideas on sustainability and health; 2.1 Sustainability and health; 2.2 Sustainability and science; 2.3 Sustainability and economics; 2.4 Sustainability and environmentalism; Chapter 3 Grounding: Co-ordinating contexts for sustainability and health; 3.1 Frameworks and tools; 3.2 Strategic frameworks; 3.3 Health-based frameworks; 3.4 Environmental frameworks; 3.5 Holistic frameworks; Chapter 4 Knowing: Linking the knowledge cultures of sustainability and health
4.1 Evidence-based public health4.2 Multiple knowledges; 4.3 Strategies for synthesis; 4.4 Tools for synthesis; Chapter 5 Scoping: Designing and monitoring sustainability and health programs; 5.1 Monitoring strategies: what we believe we need to know; 5.2 The decision-making spiral: what we know we need to know; 5.3 The file, the grid and the cycle: what we know we don't know; 5.4 Working with others: what we don't know we don't know; 5.5 Scoping the program stages: what we now know we need to know; Chapter 6 Acting: Practitioners as actors for sustainability and health; 6.1 Systems thinking
6.2 Planning the action6.3 Acting together; 6.4 Acting individually; Chapter 7 Innovating: Practitioners as innovators for sustainability and health; 7.1 Structural change for sustainability; 7.2 Capacity building for structural change; 7.3 Education for sustainability; 7.4 Research for sustainability; Chapter 8 Managing: Public health leadership and management for sustainability; 8.1 The challenge to public health of managing for sustainability; 8.2 Analysing issues at multiple levels; 8.3 Managing complex systems: three organisational forms
8.4 Managing hierarchical or formal organisations for sustainability8.5 Managing networks and communities for sustainability; 8.6 Managing markets for sustainability; 8.7 Leadership and drivers for sustainability: the role of public health; Epilogue: The way forward; The editors; Index
Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting on the health of populations across the world. Diseases are crossing the species barrier, and spreading rapidly through globalised transport systems. From new patterns of cancer to the threat of global pandemics, it is imperative that public health practitioners acknowledge the interdependence between the sustainability of the environment and the sustainability of the human species* Why are issues of global and local sustainability of increasing impotance to the public's health?* Why do issue
Beschreibung:350 pages
ISBN:9781134033621
1134033621

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