Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion

Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion David V. McQueen, editor A scan of health challenges around the globe readily brings to mind a range of infectious illnesses, from HIV to influenza. Yet chronic non-contagious conditions--heart disease, asthma, diabetes, cancer--are mo...

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Other Authors: McQueen, David V. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Geoffrey Rose revisited in the 21st Century. -Chapter 2: Current and future theoretical foundations for NCDs and health promotion
  • strategies to addressNCDs.-Chapter 15:The public policy approach: Governments, institutions, welfare states and social justice
  • Chapter 16:Accelerating Action on NCDs: Understanding and Applying A Social Determinants of Health Framework for Change
  • Chapter 17:Cardiovascular Health, Risk and Disease: Primordial and Remedial Strategies.-Chapter 18:Advocacy strategies to address NCDs: actions to increase the profile of Physical activity.-Chapter 19:Advocacy Strategies to Address NCDs: Tobacco Control.-Chapter 20:Evidence synthesis to inform NCD prevention and health promotion.-Chapter 21:Using evidence to inform NCD prevention and health promotion.-Chapter 22:The health promotion argument: NCDs and public health.-Chapter 23:Public health, NCDs, health promotion and business partnering: benefits, concerns, remedies, and moving towards creative partnering
  • The nature of causality: beyond traditional “evidence”.-Chapter 4: Surveillance for NCDs and Health promotion: an issue of theory and method.-Section II: Lenses for Understanding NCDs.-Chapter 5: Learning from the social sciences in chronic diseases health promotion: Structure, agency and distributive justice.-Chapter 6: Contextual factors in Health and Illness.-Chapter 7: The Social Determinants of Non-Communicable Diseases: A Political Perspective.-Chapter 8:Risk factors:Tobacco.-Chapter 9:Physical Inactivity and Health Promotion: Evidence and Challenges.-Chapter 10: NGOs addressing NCDs through a health promotion lens.-Chapter 11:Health Literacy as a Lens for Understanding Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion.-Chapter 12:From healthy public policy to intersectoral action and health-in-all-policies.-Section III: Approaches to NCDs.-Chapter 13:Population health intervention research: A fundamental science for NCD prevention.
  • Institutions and Organizations.-Chapter 24: Framing international trade and chronic disease
  • Chapter 25: Addressing NCDs through multilateral engagement at the United Nations: The role of WHO
  • Chapter 26:Governance, Policy and Institutions
  • Chapter 27:NCDs and Civil Society: A History and a Roadmap
  • Chapter 28:Developing health promotion workforce capacity for addressing NCDs
  • Chapter 29:Health Promotion for NCDs in and by Hospitals: –A Health Promoting Hospitals.-Conclusion