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Healthier: Fifty Thoughts on the Foundations of Population Health
Fifty essays on the state of population health from a vanguard voice in the field
Public health can rightly claim its share of healthier cities, widespread sanitation, broader availability of nutrient-rich food, and reductions in violence and injury. But for all these gains, today we face a new set of challenges, ones complicated by political and professional shifts that threaten to fundamentally change the health of populations.
Healthier is both an affirmation and an essential summary of the current challenges and opportunities for those working in and around the improvement of population health. The essays contained here champion an approach to health that is consequentialist and rooted in social justice -- an expansion of traditional, quantitatively motivated public health that will both inform and inspire any reader from student to seasoned practitioner.
Galea's cogent, incisive arguments guarantee that his perspective, currently at the forefront of public health, will soon become conventional wisdom.
Public health can rightly claim its share of healthier cities, widespread sanitation, broader availability of nutrient-rich food, and reductions in violence and injury. But for all these gains, today we face a new set of challenges, ones complicated by political and professional shifts that threaten to fundamentally change the health of populations.
Healthier is both an affirmation and an essential summary of the current challenges and opportunities for those working in and around the improvement of population health. The essays contained here champion an approach to health that is consequentialist and rooted in social justice -- an expansion of traditional, quantitatively motivated public health that will both inform and inspire any reader from student to seasoned practitioner.
Galea's cogent, incisive arguments guarantee that his perspective, currently at the forefront of public health, will soon become conventional wisdom.
288 pages, Paperback
Published July 20, 2017
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July 31, 2018
Good overview/introduction on how to approach population health from a social justice perspective. Runs through pertinent problems facing society, how to approach solving them from a public health perspective, and showing the research behind the arguments & examples.
Nothing too spectacular, but a solid read for those who are interested in the topic.
Nothing too spectacular, but a solid read for those who are interested in the topic.
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