Tackling health inequalities : [electronic book] : reinventing the role of environmental health /
By: Dhesi, Surindar.
Series: Routledge focus on environmental health: Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 96 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351601627.Subject(s): Environmental health | Environmental justice | Pollution -- Health aspects | Public health | Medical policy -- EnglandDDC classification: 613.1 Online resources: Access ebook hereItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Ebook | ATU Sligo Yeats Library eBook | 613.1 DHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available Online | Unlimited Access |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 Introduction -- 2. Environmental health as a public health profession. The historic role and context ; Environmental health and upstream interventions ; Professional identities in environmental health -- 3. Tackling health inequalities. The causes of health inequalities ; Understandings of health inequalities and prioritisation ; Planning actions to tackle health inequalities -- 4. Public health policymaking. The public health systems and structures in England ; The policymaking process ; Politics in policymaking -- 5. Environmental health (in)visibility. Environmental health visibility ; Understandings of environmental health ; Challenges in becoming visible -- 6. The future of environmental health in public health. 'Thinkers' and 'doers' ; Evidence-based practice ; Using evidence and other strategies for impact -- 7 Conclusions