Ecological Public Health

Ecological Public Health demonstrates that although public health medicine is useful and honourable, a radical rethink is required and is, indeed, starting to emerge. It aims to revitalize thinking about public health in terms of ecology, and calls for a concerted combined effort from existing disciplines to bring about reform.

Both authors have long been active in the international public health movement as practitioners, advocates, researchers and thinkers. Geof Rayner PhD is an independent social scientist working in public health, and is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Food Policy, City University London and Professor Associate at Brunel University. Tim Lang PhD is a social scientist specialising in food, public health, the environment and social justice, and is Professor of Food Policy at City University London.

Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Part 1: Images and Models of Public Health 1. Introducing the Notion of Ecological Public Health 2. Defining Public Health 3. The Recevied Wisdom of Public Health Part 2: The Transitions which Public Health has to Address Introduction to Part 2 4. Demographic Transition 5. Epidemiological and Health Transition 6. Urban Transition 7. Energy Transition 8. Economic Transition 9. The Nutrition Transition 10. Biological and Ecological Transition 11. Cultural Transition 12. Democratic Transition Conclusion to Part 2 - An Overview of the Transitions Part 3: Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health 13. The Implications of Ecological Public Health References Index