The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and
public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response …

This literature review seeks to position the UPWEB research project in relation to discourses
on welfare regimes. The UPWEB project is exploring the workings of healthcare in four …

Physiotherapy is arriving at a critical point in its history. Since World War I, physiotherapy
has been one of the largest allied health professions and the established provider of …

Background Politicians in many countries have embraced the notion that health inequalities
derive from socioeconomic inequalities, but European governments have for the most part …

Background Fiscal interventions are promising strategies to improve diets, reduce
cardiovascular disease and diabetes (cardiometabolic diseases; CMD), and address health …

Lifestyle drift is increasingly seen as a barrier to broad action on the social determinants of
health. The term is currently used in the population health literature to describe how broad …

By featuring news articles highlighting certain aspects of obesity and backgrounding others,
the media can frame these aspects as especially applicable to how obesity should be …

There is evidence of a correlation between adoption of the Ottawa Charter's framework of
five action areas and health promotion programme effectiveness, but the Charter's …

Health communication is key to promoting good population and individual health outcomes.
As the field has developed, there is a growing need for a critical appraisal of the ideologies …

Intersectoral action between public agencies across policy sectors, and between levels of
government, is seen as essential for effective action by governments to address social …