Global handbook on noncommunicable diseases and health promotion / 
David V. McQueen, editor 
 - xv, 481 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographic references and index 
<br/><br/>Section I. Theoretical and methodological issues -- High-risk versus population prevention strategies for NCDs: Geoffrey Rose revisited in the twenty-first century -- Current and future theoretical foundations for NCDs and health promotion -- The nature of causality: beyond traditional evidence -- Surveillance for NCDs and health promotion: an issue of theory and method -- Section II. Lenses for understanding NCDs -- Learning from the social sciences in chronic diseases health promotion: structure, agency and distributive justice -- Contextual factors in health and illness -- The social determinants of non-communicable diseases: a political perspective -- Risk factors: tobacco -- Physical inactivity and health promotion: evidence and challenges -- NGOs addressing NCDs through a health promotion lens -- Health literacy as a lens for understanding non-communicable diseases and health promotion -- From healthy public policy to intersectoral action and health-in-all policies -- Section III. Approaches to NCDs -- Population health intervention research: a fundamental science for NCD prevention -- Planning and management of cross-sectoral programs: strategies to address NCDs -- The public policy approach: governments, institutions, welfare states and social justice -- Accelerating action on NCDs: Understanding and applying a social determinants of health framework for changes -- Cardiovascular health, risk, and disease: primordial and remedial strategies -- Advocacy strategies to address NCDs: actions to increase the profile of physical activity -- Advocacy strategies to address NCDs: tobacco control -- Evidence synthesis to inform NCD prevention and health promotion -- Using evidence to inform NCD prevention and heal promotion -- The health promotion argument: NCDs and public health -- Public health, NDCs, health promotion, and business partnering: benefits, concerns, remedies, and moving towards creative partnering -- Section IV. Institutions and organizations -- Framing international trade and chronic disease -- Addressing NCDs through multilateral engagement at the United Nations: The role of WHO -- Governance, policy, and institutions -- NCDs and civil society: a history and a roadmap -- Developing health promotion workforce capacity for addressing non-communicable diseases globally -- Health promotion for NCDs in and by hospitals: a health promoting hospital perspective 
<br/><br/> Department of Medicine 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781461475934 (alk. paper) 1461475937 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013941727 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Diseases--Handbooks, manuals, etc<br/>Health promotion--Handbooks, manuals, etc<br/>Chronic Disease--prevention & control<br/>Health Promotion<br/>Delivery of Health Care<br/>Global Health<br/>Health Priorities
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Handbooks and manuals.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC 55  / .M368 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.9/8 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2013 I-299 WT 500