Ichiro Kawachi

Dustin T. Duncan

Neighborhoods and health : a progress report / Dustin T. Duncan and Ichiro Kawachi -- Operationalizing neighborhood definitions in health research : spatial misclassification and other issues / Dustin T. Duncan, Seann D. Regan, and Basile Chaix -- Quantitative methods for measuring neighborhood characteristics in neighborhood health research / Dustin T. Duncan, William C. Goedel, and Rumi Chunara -- Statistical methods in spatial epidemiology / Samson Gebreab -- Agent based models / Brenda Heaton, Abdul Rahman El-Sayed, and Sandro Galea -- Experimental and quasi-experimental designs in neighborhood health effects research : strengthening causal inference and promoting translation / Nicole M. Schmidt, Quynh C. Nguyen, and Theresa L. Osypuk -- Qualitative methods and neighborhood health research / Danya E. Keene -- Designing healthier built environments / Pedro Gullón Tosio and Gina S. Lovasi -- Food environment and health / Jason Block, Michael Seward, Peter James -- Neighborhoods, social stigma, and health / Danya E. Keene and Mark B. Padilla -- Neighborhood foreclosure and health / Maraina Arcaya -- Residential segregation and health / Michael R. Kramer.

Neighborhoods and Health

Christina A. Roberto

Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform healthy food choices? Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first book to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the persisting problems of health behaviors and behavior change. In addition to providing a primer on the behavioral economics principles that are most relevant to public health, this book offers details on how these principles can be employed to mitigating the world's greatest health threats, including obesity, smoking, risky sexual behavior, and excessive drinking. With contributions from an international team of scholars from psychology, economics, marketing, public health, and medicine, this book is a trailblazing new approach to the most difficult and important problems of our time.

Behavioral Economics and Public Health

Walter Ricciardi

Charles Guest

Iain Lang

Fully revised and updated for the third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for all those working in this broad field. Structured to assist with practical tasks, translating evidence into policy, and providing concise summaries and real-world issues from across the globe, this literally provides a world of experience at your fingertips. Easy-to-use, concise and practical, it is structured into seven parts that focus on the vital areas of assessment, data and information, direct action, policy, health-care systems, personal effectiveness and organisational development. Reflecting recent advances, the most promising developments in practical public health are presented, as well as maintaining essential summaries of core disciplines. This handbook is designed to assist students and practitioners around the world, for improved management of disasters, epidemics, health behaviour, acute and chronic disease prevention, community and government action, environmental health, vulnerable populations, and more.

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

Susan Redline

Sleep, along with the sleep-related behaviours that impact sleep quality, have emerged as one of the major determinants of health and well-being (alongside good diet, regular exercise, and not smoking). In turn research is beginning to identify that sleep is strongly socially patterned--by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, immigrant status, stage of the life course, work experiences, stress, and neighbourhood contexts. Yet no textbook currently exists that brings together the accumulated evidence on the social epidemiology of sleep. This text is targeted toward (a) social epidemiologists who wish to study sleep as a health outcome, (b) sleep epidemiologists who want to learn about the social determinants of sleep, and (c) other scholars working in the intersection between sleep health, social epidemiology, and health disparities.

The Social Epidemiology of Sleep

THE GROUNDBREAKING, FORMATIVE WORK IN SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY -- NOW UPDATED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN PUBLIC HEALTH In 2003, Neighborhoods and Health codified the idea that a neighborhood's social and physical makeup can influence the health of people who live in it. More than a decade later, with the relationship between place and health firmly entrenched at the center of how we understand public health (and as its own scientific discipline, spatial epidemiology), this second edition of the landmark text offers another giant leap forward for the field. Offering both a synthesis of the essential research and a practical overview of the methods used to garner it, the second edition of Neighborhoods and Health is the essential guide to understanding this core component of contemporary population health -- both the journey to date and what's next.

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