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"Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book and provides many examples of practice. Both are core texts for those studying health promotion or public health, and supplementary texts for students of healthcare and social care. They are ideal for public health practitioners and members of the wider public health workforce"--

"Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the evidence behind the UK's public health priorities into one comprehensible textbook. Taking one theme per chapter, the book examines the social and environmental influences that shape people's health; health inequalities; poverty and health; mental, emotional and spiritual health; sexual health; physical inactivity; diet; tobacco; alcohol; drugs; weight; cardiovascular disease; cancer; diabetes and dementia. The book takes a holistic approach, combining scientific and epidemiological evidence with the subjective experiences of those who undergo these health journeys. Each chapter explains the causes of poor health, the evidence behind the recommendations for good health and ends by demonstrating the health benefits of positive action. This is a core text for those studying health promotion or public health, and a supplementary text for students of healthcare and social care. The book focusses on adults' health in the UK, with examples from the four nations, and provides some contextual international information where relevant. Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health is an ideal companion for busy practitioners who work across the wider sectors that support people's health and wellbeing. It is also a core textbook for students new to health promotion and public health"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Part I Social and environmental determinants of health -- 1 Social context of health and illness -- Key points -- Introduction -- Traditional model -- Personalistic beliefs -- Naturalistic beliefs -- Humours -- Theory of the 'airs' -- Contagion -- Miasma -- Medical model -- The rise of medical science -- Smallpox -- Cholera -- Germ theory -- Wider scientific developments -- Medical influence on healthcare -- Disease prevention -- The medical model -- Challenges to the medical model -- Social model -- A new era for health -- Social, economic and physical environment -- Psychosocial factors -- Structural factors -- Social determinants of health -- Social-ecological models -- Life course approach -- Lay perceptions -- Models of health and illness today -- Low-grade inflammation: medical model -- Epigenetics: social-ecological model/life course approach -- Adverse childhood experiences: social-ecological model/life course approach -- Mindfulness: traditional model -- Why understanding models of health and illness matters -- Summary -- Further reading -- 2 Environment and health -- Key points -- Introduction -- Climate change -- Global warming -- Consequences of climate change for people's health -- Environmental warming and heatwaves -- Air quality and emissions -- Ultraviolet radiation -- Heavy rainfall/flash floods -- Drought -- Freezing weather -- Allergens and vector-borne diseases -- Conflict and displacement -- International response to climate change -- Air pollution -- Air pollutants -- Particulates -- Ground-level ozone -- Petrol and diesel -- Tackling air pollution -- Built environment -- Obesogenic environments -- Environments and health -- A healthy built environment.

"Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the evidence behind the UK's public health priorities into one comprehensible textbook. Taking one theme per chapter, the book examines the social and environmental influences that shape people's health; health inequalities; poverty and health; mental, emotional and spiritual health; sexual health; physical inactivity; diet; tobacco; alcohol; drugs; weight; cardiovascular disease; cancer; diabetes and dementia. The book takes a holistic approach, combining scientific and epidemiological evidence with the subjective experiences of those who undergo these health journeys. Each chapter explains the causes of poor health, the evidence behind the recommendations for good health and ends by demonstrating the health benefits of positive action. This is a core text for those studying health promotion or public health, and a supplementary text for students of healthcare and social care. The book focusses on adults' health in the UK, with examples from the four nations, and provides some contextual international information where relevant. Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health is an ideal companion for busy practitioners who work across the wider sectors that support people's health and wellbeing. It is also a core textbook for students new to health promotion and public health"--

Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability aims to throw light into the traumatic experiences faced by people with intellectual disability living in disability accommodation services, to make changes to policy and practice, and to offer strategies and tools for capacity building for practitioners

White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy and such films as Deliverance, Misery, and Dead Poets Society?as well as other writings, including The Closing of the American Mind?Sally Robinson argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and the surprisingly pleasurable tensions that come from living in crisis

This article connects the critical reception of White Noise to a history
of anti-consumerist critique that relies on and promotes an understanding
of consumer culture as destroying authenticity and individual autonomy
through its "feminizing" effects. Arguing that critics of DeLillo's novel
imagine the crisis of postmodern culture as a crisis of masculinity, the
article focuses on these critics' hostility toward the novel's
representation of shopping and shoppers. The essay offers a feminist
critique of the nostalgia betrayed by this criticism, which wittingly or
unwittingly reproduces a modernist logic equating masculinity with
authentic culture and femininity with consumer culture.