Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Foundations of Sustainable Community Health
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Policies and Practices in Sustainable Community Health
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Indicators and Outcomes of Sustainable Community Health
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Sustainable Community Health in Populations
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
About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Community Health
Book Subtitle: Systems and Practices in Diverse Settings
Editors: Elias Mpofu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59687-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59686-6Published: 22 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59689-7Published: 22 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59687-3Published: 21 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 638
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Health Policy, Sustainable Development, Community and Environmental Psychology, Demography, Development Studies