Throughout the developed and developing world, the organization of health service delivery is undergoing a period of reorganization. The health service professions, under a variety of influences as diverse as the World Health Organization, right-wing governments, feminist and other liberation movements, are renegotiating their approaches to health and illness, emphasizing health promotion and the prevention of illness. This reorientation highlights the relationship between health and social, and economic and environmental factors, and the need to build intersectoral links to achieve these new goals of health promotion and illness prevention. This book is a comparative study of health and health services from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on the work of medical geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, epidemiologists and other social scientists.
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978-0-340-62512-5 (9780340625125)
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Key changes in perspectives on health and societies; changing perspectives on the spatial patterning of health and society; changing perspectives on the spatial patterning of health and society; changing perspectives on the social construction of health, disease and illness; changing relationships between human health and the social and physical environment; social and spatial inequalities in health and the need for health services; equity and efficiency - health services organization and use; setting agendas, policy formulation and implementation; evaluating successes and failures; the widening international perspective on health; the roles of health services in changing societies - future directions.
