Editors:
- Emphasizes behavioural health promotion’s theoretical and practical implications for the relationship of the state and its citizens
- Explains what kind of health challenges are picked up for policy interventions and how they are channelled through the political process
- Provides empirical data from Europe, the US, Asia, and Australia
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research (PSPHPR)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- public health
- contemporary challenges
- policy-making
- individual and societal dimensions
- health promotion
- social determinants of health
- behavioural interventions
- health nudges
- policy instruments
- behavioural insights
- choice architecture
- Global public policy
- urban health
- lifestyles
- practices
- human geography
- scientific expertise
- epistemic authority
- stakeholders
- citizenship
Editors and Affiliations
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FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany
Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer
About the editors
Kathrin Loer is a political scientist at the FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany. After working as a political consultant in health policy she returned to academia in 2013. Her research focuses on health and consumer policies but also on theoretical topics in public policy. Current research projects aim at linking theoretical and conceptual questions of public policy with empirical research on health and energy policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Editors: Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98316-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98315-8Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98316-5Published: 30 December 2018
Series ISSN: 3005-0189
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0197
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 109
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Legislative and Executive Politics, Governance and Government, Development and Health, Health Policy, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention