Description
Sustainable Community Health, 1st ed. 2020
Systems and Practices in Diverse Settings
Coordinator: Mpofu Elias
Language: EnglishSubjects for Sustainable Community Health:
Keywords
Population Health; sustainable community health; Counseling Psychology; Public Health; epidemiology; Sustainable Development Goals; SDG 3; Rehabilitation Counseling; health disparities; social justice; Health Services; community health systems; Nutrition Practices; Substance Use; Community Epidemiological Approaches; Community Health Informatics; Telehealth; neurodiverse wellbeing; Indigenous Community Health; wellbeing across the lifecourse
Publication date: 01-2022
638 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2021
638 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings. By examining the interdependence of environmental, economic, public health, community wellbeing and development factors, the authors address the systemic factors impacting health disparities, inequality and social justice issues.
The book analyzes strategies based on a partnership view of health, in which communities determine their health and wellness working alongside local, state and federal health agencies. Crucially, it demonstrates that communities are themselves health systems and their wellbeing capabilities affect the health of individuals and the collective alike. It identifies health indicators and tools that communities and policy makers can utilize to sustain truly inclusive health systems. This book offers a unique resource for researchers and practitioners working across psychology, mental health, rehabilitation, public health, epidemiology, social policy, healthcare and allied health.Presents evidence-based strategies to build and sustain communities that are active agents in their own health and wellbeing
Applies a trans-disciplinary approach to examine the interdependence of environmental, economic and social justice factors and their influence on community health
Proposes forward-thinking health systems that are equitable, environmentally sustainable, and effective