Public Health - Hardcover

This important book makes a significant contribution to the emergent body of public health knowledge by examining debates around the social context of health, including key socio-economic, environmental and cultural factors.

Angela Scriven is the Course Leader for the MSc in Health Promotion and Public Health. She has been teaching and researching in the field of health promotion for over 20 year and has published widely. Her research is centred on the relationship between health promotion policy and practice within specific contexts. Her extensive national and international collaborations relate to research, consultancy, editorial activity, subject development and external examining. She is a member of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health. Key publications include Health Promotion Practice: the Contribution of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2005, Palgrave), Scriven A and Garman, S (eds) Promoting Health: Global Perspectives (Palgrave, 2005) and Scriven, A. and Orme, J. (eds) Health Promotion: Professional Perspectives, (2nd edition) (2001, Palgrave in association with the Open University). Sebastian Garman is Senior Tutor in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care and leader for the module on Global Perspectives in Public Health and Health Promotion for the MSc in Health Promotion and Public Health at Brunel University. He is a sociologist with interests in public health, globalisation, collective memory and ethnicity. His research is focused on the implications for health promotion and public health of globalisation. Key publications include: Garman, S The Social Context of Health Promotion in a Globalising World. In Scriven A and Garman, S (eds) Promoting Health: Global Perspectives. (Palgrave, 2005) and Scriven A and Garman, S (eds) Promoting Health: Global Perspectives. Basingstoke: (Palgrave, 2005).