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What role for environmental public health practitioners in promoting healthy built environments?
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July 2024

2023/2024

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W hile the built environment (BE) has long been of interest to public health practitioners, widespread reengagement of public health agencies in community planning is a phenomenon of the last decade. In 1854, John Snow identified the Broad Street water pump as the source of a cholera outbreak in London.1 Since then, public health authorities have championed introduction of sanitary and safe water infrastructures to control infectious disease.2 Early efforts to separate urban residents ...
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An introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness
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July 2024

2023/2024

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Medical knowledge is not purely scientific, but shapes and shaped by the society in which it develops. Disease are socially produced and distributedthey are not just a part of nature or biology. The key variables shaping the production and distribution of diseases are class, gender and ethnicity and the ways in which professional groups define conditions as diseases. Sociologists, depending on their model society develop different explanations of social shaping and product...
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