Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion [recurso electrónico

Since the beginning of the 21st century, chronic diseases account for the majority of all deaths globally and represent an enormous financial burden on all countries, regardless of level of economic development. Originally defined as being long-term, generally incurable diseases of older persons, chronic diseases have increasingly been conceptualized as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). These long-term afflictions are the leading health problems of the modern world and represent some of the greatest challenges to clinical, preventive medicine and health promotion at this time. Health promotion has arisen as an approach that is most critical in dealing with the broad array of causes of NCDs. Thus, this book addresses NCDs and health promotion in this global context. There is a widely recognized global incapacity to deal with chronic diseases. Furthermore, the needed capacity may vary enormously with level of development and multiple social and economic factors. Simple approaches that deal with single risk factors have enjoyed a modicum of success in some parts of the world, but today the salient opinion is that broad social and policy approaches are the long-term effective approaches. This book takes a critical perspective analyzing the relative success of recent and current approaches to addressing the challenges of the noncommunicable diseases in different social, economic, and political contexts. Because the extant literature addressing NCDs and health promotion appears to be primarily in the Western press and in an epidemiological context, this book makes every effort to offer discussions from other perspectives. Thus some of the sections of the book offer a lens or a critical perspective into the approach to chronic diseases. In addition each section addresses the state of the evidence for the effectiveness of the approach. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 High-Risk Versus Population Prevention Strategies for NCDs: Geoffrey Rose Revisited in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 3-19 Current and Future Theoretical Foundations for NCDs and Health Promotion....Pages 21-35 The Nature of Causality: Beyond Traditional Evidence....Pages 37-49 Surveillance for NCDs and Health Promotion: An Issue of Theory and Method....Pages 51-70 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 Learning from the Social Sciences in Chronic Diseases Health Promotion: Structure, Agency and Distributive Justice....Pages 73-82 Contextual Factors in Health and Illness....Pages 83-93 The Social Determinants of Non-communicable Diseases: A Political Perspective....Pages 95-113 Risk Factors: Tobacco....Pages 115-136 Physical Inactivity and Health Promotion: Evidence and Challenges....Pages 137-157 NGOs Addressing NCDs Through a Health Promotion Lens....Pages 159-167 Health Literacy as a Lens for Understanding Non-communicable Diseases and Health Promotion....Pages 169-187 From Healthy Public Policy to Intersectoral Action and Health-in-All Policies....Pages 189-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Population Health Intervention Research: A Fundamental Science for NCD Prevention....Pages 205-216 Planning and Management of Cross-Sectoral Programs: Strategies to Address NCDs....Pages 217-235 The Public Policy Approach: Governments, Institutions, Welfare States and Social Justice....Pages 237-248 Accelerating Action on NCDs: Understanding and Applying a Social Determinants of Health Framework for Change....Pages 249-263 Cardiovascular Health, Risk, and Disease: Primordial and Remedial Strategies....Pages 265-276 Advocacy Strategies to Address NCDs: Actions to Increase the Profile of Physical Activity....Pages 277-287 Advocacy Strategies to Address NCDs: Tobacco Control....Pages 289-307 Evidence Synthesis to Inform NCD Prevention and Health Promotion....Pages 309-324 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Using Evidence to Inform NCD Prevention and Health Promotion....Pages 325-335 The Health Promotion Argument: NCDs and Public Health....Pages 337-344 Public Health, NCDs, Health Promotion, and Business Partnering: Benefits, Concerns, Remedies, and Moving Towards Creative Partnering....Pages 345-363 Front Matter....Pages 365-365 Framing International Trade and Chronic Disease....Pages 367-386 Addressing NCDs Through Multilateral Engagement at the United Nations: The Role of WHO....Pages 387-398 Governance, Policy, and Institutions....Pages 399-409 NCDs and Civil Society: A History and a Roadmap....Pages 411-415 Developing Health Promotion Workforce Capacity for Addressing Non-communicable Diseases Globally....Pages 417-439 Health Promotion for NCDs in and by Hospitals: A Health Promoting Hospital Perspective....Pages 441-460 Back Matter....Pages 461-481 Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion David V. McQueen, editor A scan of health challenges around the globe readily brings to mind a range of infectious illnesses, from HIV to influenza. Yet chronic non-contagious conditions—heart disease, asthma, diabetes, cancer—are more prevalent, and their rates soaring, across the developed and developing worlds. The Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion is an important resource for understanding and approaching chronic illnesses and their prevention. This timely text balances theory and strategies to provide an integrative context for health-affecting behaviors regarding tobacco use, food choices, and physical activity. Coverage expands on current medical/clinical public health perspectives, arguing that closer attention to social context is crucial to better use of health resources and more relevant preventive efforts. Possible roles for hospitals, the workplace, government agencies, NGOs, and other institutions are analyzed, as is the potential for addressing larger underlying health factors (e.g., inequities and poverty) at the societal level. Topics covered include: The nature of causality: beyond traditional evidence Learning from the social sciences in chronic disease health promotion Contextual factors in health and illness Understanding and applying a social determinants of health framework for addressing NCDs Public health, NCDs, health promotion and business partnering NCDs and civil society: a history and a roadmap As the authors of the Global Handbook on Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion make abundantly clear, opportunities are as numerous as the issues, and researchers and graduate students in global public health, health promotion, and chronic disease epidemiology will find these chapters positive and realistic.p>