Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
Philosophy for a New Public Health Era
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
Reihe: History and Philosophy of Biology
ISBN: 978-1-138-05990-0
Verlag: Routledge
Population health science has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of 20th century public health and medicine into a science of its own. Its approach is to promote the public’s health through improving everyday human life: affordable nutritious food, clean air, safe places where children can play, living wages, etc. It recognizes that addressing contemporary health challenges such as the prevalence of type 2 diabetes will take much more than good hospitals and public health departments.
Blending philosophy of science/medicine, public health ethics and history, Philosophy of Population Health Science offers a framework that explains, analyses and largely endorses the features that define this relatively new field. Presenting a philosophical perspective, Valles helps to clarify what these features are and why they matter, including: searching for health’s ‘upstream’ causes in social life, embracing a professional commitment to studying and ameliorating the staggering heath inequities in and between populations; and reforming scientific practices to foster humility and respect among the many scientists and non-scientists who must work collaboratively to promote health.
Featuring illustrative case studies from around the globe at the end of all main chapters, this radical monograph is written to be accessible to all scholars and advanced students who have an interest in health - from public health students to professional philosophers.
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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Blueprint of a philosophy of—and for—population health science
A brief overview
Introduction
What is population health science?
Why write a book on philosophy of population health science?
What will this book accomplish?
What are the book’s philosophical methods and commitments?
What this book is not, and what it will not do
Onward
Section 1 What should health mean in population health science?
Chapter 2 A brief history of the social concept of health and its role in population health science
Introduction
The biomedical model and the Biostatistical Theory of health
Population health as (metaphysically) social health
Health is (empirically) social
Conclusion: Moving toward a thoroughly social health concept of health
Case study: The Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors
Chapter 3 Health as a life course trajectory of complete well-being in social context
Introduction: The many debates over health’s meaning
Life Course Theory
Life course lesson 1: Health is best understood as a lifelong phenomenon, not in time slices
Life course lesson 2: Population health and individual health are best understood as co-developing dynamically
The World Health Organization’s definition of health, not what it seems
The WHO definition of health is not an operationalized tool for health assessment; it is a toolbox that guides the gathering of tools
Making room for health pluralisms: metaphysical, empirical, ethical and methodological
Conclusion: An updated health concept for an expansive population health mission
Case Study: Addressing health disparities between Aboriginal Australians and settler Australians
Section 2 Which causes and effects matter most in population health?
Chapter 4 Expanding the boundaries of population health
Introduction: health as life cour
