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    Sandro Galea.
    Summary: Public health can rightly claim its share of victories: 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. -- Provided by publisher.

    Contents:
    Acknowledgements
    Dedication
    1. Introduction
    Section 1. The foundations of population health
    2. The aspirations and strategies of public health
    3. Social justice, public health
    4. On mechanisms vs. foundations
    5. What health, for whom?
    6. Pasteur's quadrant and population health
    7. Producing health over a lifetime
    8. Shaping values, elevating health
    9. Towards a culture of health
    10. Paternalism: unavoidable, perhaps desirable
    11. At the heart of it all, empathy
    12. On courage
    Section 2. The world as it is
    13. More hate, more harm
    14. The burden of incarceration
    15. Finding a way out: suicide and the health of populations
    16. The heavy toll of substance use
    17. The health effects of war
    18. Out in the cold
    19. Priced out of health
    20. When disaster strikes
    21. Climate change and our health
    22. Reproductive health, reproductive justice
    23. Coming to terms with firearms
    24. The corrosive role of racism
    Section 3. On inequities and the health of marginalized populations
    25. On health haves and health have nots
    26. Income and health
    27. What Flint teaches us 28. Gender equity, almost
    29. The well-being of LGBT populations
    30. Transgender today
    31. The health of immigrants
    32. Caring for refugees
    Section 4. The challenges faced by public health
    33. Population health science-are we doing it wrong?
    34. To screen, or not to screen
    35. Knowledge and values
    36. A step backwards on vaccines
    37. Living with complexity
    38. Moving beyond
    39. On ignorance
    40. Acknowledging luck
    Section 5. Towards a healthier world
    41. Aging healthy
    42. In the heart of the city, health
    43. Towards an activist public health
    44. Promoting prevention
    45. Innovating for a healthier public
    46. Who should we talk to, and how?
    47. On engaging the media
    48. Making the acceptable unacceptable
    49. Social movements and the conditions of health
    50. Public health as public good
    51. A world without public health
    Index.
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    Books: General Collection (Downstairs)
    2018
    RA418 .G35 2018
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