Ecological Public Health: Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

by Tim Lang and Geof Rayner

Book Overview

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.

This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits the twenty-first century's challenges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844078329
• ISBN13: 9781844078325
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"