Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health

Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbeing.

Divided into two parts, the book introduces key concepts in relation to global public health, such as ethics, economics, health disparities, and globalisation. The second part comprises chapters exploring specific challenges, such as designing and implementing public health interventions, the role of social enterprise, climate change, sustainability and health, oral health, violence, palliative care, mental health, loneliness, nutrition, and embracing diverse genders. These chapters build on, and apply, the theoretical frameworks laid out in part one, linking the substantive content to broader contexts.

Taking an inclusive, global approach, this is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of global health, public health, and medical sociology.

Vincent La Placa is Associate Professor of Public Health and Policy at the University of Greenwich and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Previously, he was a Senior Research Consultant at the Department of Health (now DHSC), where he managed the qualitative strand of the Healthy Foundations Life-stage Segmentation Model, one of the largest pieces of qualitative research conducted across UK government. He co- edited the book Wellbeing: Policy and Practice with Anneyce Knight and Allan McNaught, published in 2014. Dr La Placa was recently appointed an Honorary Fellow of Eurasia Research’s Teaching, Education and Research Association (TERA).

Julia Morgan is an Associate Professor for Public Health and Wellbeing. Her primary teaching and research interests focus on social justice and inequality; nomadic peoples; gender; global childhoods; international development; global public health; community development; and wellbeing amongst people who are imprisoned. She has carried out research with children whose parents have been imprisoned; Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities in the UK; Mongolian nomadic herders; and children who live on the street in Mongolia, Romania, and Zambia. She is currently researching ADHD late diagnosis in adult women in the UK.