What is Health?

Ruth Cross (Leeds Metropolitan University)

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English

Polity Press
28 June 2024

Sociology & anthropology

What is health? What does health mean to people? How do we make sense of health and experience it?

There are no simple answers to these questions. Health is complex, subjective and varied. Drawing on theory, research and contemporary debates, Ruth Cross explores the nature of health in depth and challenges our thinking about it. Moving beyond taken-for-granted assumptions, she gives the meaning of ‘health’ its due attention, exploring everyday perspectives as well as ‘expert’ medical, academic and policy understandings and approaches. In doing so, the book brings together different knowledge and expertise on health, also considering the inextricable links between human and planetary health.

This book is important for all those working in the health field, or training to do so, seeking a broad understanding about health and all its complexity.

By: Ruth Cross (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781509556496
ISBN 10: 1509556494
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 28 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: What is Health? Chapter 2: Dimensions of Health Chapter 3: Models of Health Chapter 4: Determinants of Health Chapter 5: Health as Wellbeing Chapter 6: Health as Happiness Chapter 7: Creating Health Chapter 8: Health and Our Planet Conclusion

Ruth Cross is Course Director for Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University.

Reviews for What is Health?

""This comprehensive and thought-provoking text analyses the complexity of health and its key determinants. It is wide-ranging in scope, extending from individual through to planetary perspectives, and is essential reading for all those studying or working in health-related areas."" Jackie Green, Emeritus Professor of Health Promotion, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom ""The author has done a fantastic job of unpacking the complexities and nuances of health through different perspectives and experiences of health and its determinants. The interplay between climate change and health is a brilliant way of stimulating food for thought as part of the concluding chapter on planetary health. Definitely a book I will read again."" Julian David Pillay, Professor of Global Health, Durban University of Technology, South Africa