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Compassionate Cities - Public Health and End-of-Life Care (Paperback, New ed)
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Compassionate Cities - Public Health and End-of-Life Care (Paperback, New ed)
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Imagine if whole communities - not simply a community's direct
health services - really cared about its member's health and social
well-being. Imagine if that care extended to the dying, death and
losses experienced by everyone in that community. Imagine if
"death" was an idea that went beyond the "death of the body" and
came to include the deaths of identity and belonging as these
endings apply to people living with dementia or the aftermath of
sexual abuse, dispossession of indigenous or refugee peoples. Such
community and policy frameworks partly do exist in the World Health
Organization's "Healthy Cities" international programs, but they
often do not include end-of-life care issues such as death, dying
and loss. This book takes the idea of the Healthy City and extends
these policy and practice ideas to include frequently overlooked
end-of-life care experiences and concerns. Compassion is an idea
that goes beyond "health" and "welfare" and embraces and promotes
empathy and support as new forms of "health promotion."
Beginning with an examination of the parallel histories of public
health and end-of-life care the book moves to a critique of the
current limits of both for human experiences of death, dying and
loss. The theory and policy ideas of Healthy Cities are introduced
and a comparison with Compassionate Cities policies made. Policies
of Compassionate Cities are discussed alongside their sociological
basis. The strengths and weaknesses of such large-scale programs
are examined. The final sections of the book outline and summarize
basic models of community development and action strategies for
implementing a "Compassionate Cities" program.
This is a book for practitionerswho want to include end-of-life
care issues into their health promotion and community development
practices. It is also a book for end-of-life care practitioners who
want to include community development and health promotion ideas
into their practice. For social sciences, public health and
end-of-life care academics this book argues that the integration of
death, loss and compassion into contemporary public health ideas
may address important long-standing limits and criticism of public
health. "Compassion" may go beyond "infection control" and "health
promotion" and invite us to think of a "third wave" movement of
public health that joins empathy, equality and action together as
practical policies for future domestic and international
well-being.
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