Health Studies: An Introduction - Softcover

 
9789811621482: Health Studies: An Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9811621489 ISBN 13: 9789811621482
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemiology, psychology, human and environmental geography, and anthropology, it is the only book to explore in one volume all of the core disciplines that contribute to understanding health. It illustrates how the complexity of health problems such as obesity should be viewed with an interdisciplinary perspective. Each chapter explains the disciplinary approach and then its theoretical and research approaches with examples. 

A highlight of this 4th edition is a new chapter on sports and exercise science providing another scientific chapter on physiology which is applied and will be of interest to all those thinking of employment in sports or leisure industry.

The book is accessible and learner-centered and each chapter features: a connections feature that links the chapters together; learning tasks; questions for reflection and debate; examples to illustrate concepts, methodologies and to explore contemporary issues; a case study on obesity, food and diet.

Comprehensive, accessible and written by leading experts in the different fields, this is the introductory text for all students of health studies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jennie Naidoo is retired Principal Lecturer at University of West of England.

Jane Wills is Professor of Public Health and Health Promotion at London South Bank University.

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This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemiology, psychology, human and environmental geography, and anthropology, it is the only book to explore in one volume all of the core disciplines that contribute to understanding health. It illustrates how the complexity of health problems such as obesity should be viewed with an interdisciplinary perspective. Each chapter explains the disciplinary approach and then its theoretical and research approaches with examples. 

A highlight of this 4th edition is a new chapter on sports and exercise science providing another scientific chapter on physiology which is applied and will be of interest to all those thinking of employment in sports or leisure industry.

The book is accessible and learner-centered and each chapter features: a connections feature that links the chapters together; learning tasks; questions for reflection and debate; examples to illustrate concepts, methodologies and to explore contemporary issues; a case study on obesity, food and diet.

Comprehensive, accessible and written by leading experts in the different fields, this is the introductory text for all students of health studies.

Jennie Naidoo is retired Principal Lecturer at University of West of England.

Jane Wills is Professor of Public Health and Health Promotion at London South Bank University.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9811621489
ISBN 13 
9789811621482
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
4
Anzahl der Seiten
484
Herausgeber
Naidoo Jennie, Wills Jane
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