Determinants of Health: Theory, Understanding, Portrayal, Policy (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)

For decades, health professionals have asserted the importance of public participation in interventions for health. Medicine has pursued patient participation in clinical decision-making. In the public health realm, target groups have been asked to assist in the design and implementation of initiatives for health. In practice, however, patients and populations expect health professionals to give advice and - in some cases - to make decisions on their behalf. This implies limits to the ideal of participation. In this innovative work, the author contrasts public and professional understandings of health and the best ways to achieve health. The result is a model of lay participation in the structuring of medical and public health activity. The book is unique due to its policy-applicable, quantitative studies and its theoretical analysis of works by RenA(c) Dubos and Aaron Antonovsky. It will be of value to professionals in health promotion, health education, medical anthropology, and social epidemiology.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 13
Release date:	July 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Matthew J. Commers
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	211
Edition:	2002 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-0809-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-0809-0
Barcode:	9781402008092

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