Understanding Public Health : Productive Processing of Internal and External Reality.

Author/creator Hurrelmann, Klaus
Other author Richter, Matthias, 1957-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton : Routledge, 2019.
Description1 online resource (117 pages)
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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; PART A Determinants of health; Summary of Part A; 1 Personal, behavioural and environmental factors; 1.1 The interplay among conditioning factors; 1.2 The mediating role of health behaviour; 2 The impact of socioeconomic status; 2.1 The importance of the family; 2.2 The influence of education, work and career; 3 The influence of gender and age; 3.1 Development of health in boys and girls; 3.2 Development of health late in the life course; PART B Basic theories of health; Summary of Part B; 4 Psychological theories of health
Contents 4.1 The individual as active information processor; 4.2 The individual as masterer of stress; 5 Sociological theories of health; 5.1 The interrelation of social and health inequality; 5.2 Health-impairing social and organisational structures; 6 Public health theories; 6.1 Identifying risk factors for public health; 6.2 Identifying optimal healthcare structures; PART C Understanding public health; Summary of Part C; 7 The concept of salutogenesis; 7.1 Resistance resources; 7.2 Sense of coherence; 8 The model of productive processing of reality
Contents 8.1 The association between socialisation and health; 8.2 Health outcomes of coping with developmental tasks; 9 Strategies of public health; 9.1 Health promotion and disease prevention; 9.2 Prevention and health promotion in the life course; 9.3 Examples of promotion strategies; References; Index
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Issued in other formPrint version: Hurrelmann, Klaus. Understanding Public Health : Productive Processing of Internal and External Reality. Milton : Routledge, ©2019 9780367360733
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