
What is Health?
Ruth Cross(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 28. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-5095-5649-6 (ISBN)
Description
What is health? What does health mean to people? How do we make sense of health and experience it?
There are no simple answers to these questions. Health is complex, subjective and varied. Drawing on theory, research and contemporary debates, Ruth Cross explores the nature of health in depth and challenges our thinking about it. Moving beyond taken-for-granted assumptions, she gives the meaning of 'health' its due attention, exploring everyday perspectives as well as 'expert' medical, academic and policy understandings and approaches. In doing so, the book brings together different knowledge and expertise on health, also considering the inextricable links between human and planetary health.
This book is important for all those working in the health field, or training to do so, seeking a broad understanding about health and all its complexity.
There are no simple answers to these questions. Health is complex, subjective and varied. Drawing on theory, research and contemporary debates, Ruth Cross explores the nature of health in depth and challenges our thinking about it. Moving beyond taken-for-granted assumptions, she gives the meaning of 'health' its due attention, exploring everyday perspectives as well as 'expert' medical, academic and policy understandings and approaches. In doing so, the book brings together different knowledge and expertise on health, also considering the inextricable links between human and planetary health.
This book is important for all those working in the health field, or training to do so, seeking a broad understanding about health and all its complexity.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-5649-6 (9781509556496)
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Person
Ruth Cross is Course Director for Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University.
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is Health?
Chapter 2: Dimensions of Health
Chapter 3: Models of Health
Chapter 4: Determinants of Health
Chapter 5: Health as Wellbeing
Chapter 6: Health as Happiness
Chapter 7: Creating Health
Chapter 8: Health and Our Planet
Conclusion
Chapter 1: What is Health?
Chapter 2: Dimensions of Health
Chapter 3: Models of Health
Chapter 4: Determinants of Health
Chapter 5: Health as Wellbeing
Chapter 6: Health as Happiness
Chapter 7: Creating Health
Chapter 8: Health and Our Planet
Conclusion