Off the couch and on the move: Global public health and the medicalisation of nature

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1343-1354

  Brown, Tim ^a   Bell, Morag ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Governmentality; Medicalisation; Mobility; Nature; Public health; Spatiality of knowledge

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENVIRONMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NATURE; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; WESTERN WORLD; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33847145374     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.11.020     Document Type: Article

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