Health And Societies: A Geographical Perspective EA: Changing Perspectives

by Ann Taket (Author), Ann Taket (Author), Sarah Curtis (Author)

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  1995

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  Throughout the developed and developing world, the organization of health service delivery is undergoing a period of reorganization. The health service professions, under a variety of influences as diverse as the World Health Organization, right-wing governments, feminist and other liberation movements, are renegotiating their approaches to health and illness, emphasizing health promotion and the prevention of illness. This reorientation highlights the relationship between health and social, and economic and environmental factors, and the need to build intersectoral links to achieve these new goals of health promotion and illness prevention. This book is a comparative study of health and health services from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on the work of medical geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, epidemiologists and other social scientists.