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School Food, Equity and Social Justice

Critical Reflections and Perspectives

Edited by Dorte Ruge, Irene Torres, Darren Powell ...

Series series Critical Studies in Health and Education
School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.The book is divided into three sections: Food politics and policies; Sustainability and development; and, Teaching and learning about food. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of ... Read more

$48.99 USD

School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.The book is divided into three sections: Food politics and policies; Sustainability and development; and, Teaching and learning about food. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of
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Education Policies in the 21st Century

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are
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Prevention Is Primary

Strategies for Community Well Being

by Larry Cohen, Vivian Chavez, Sana Chehimi ...

The new edition of Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal for students as well as practitioners, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition combines ... Read more

$81.00 USD

The new edition of Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal for students as well as practitioners, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition combines
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Toward the Healthy City

People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

by Jason Corburn ...

Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... Read more

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A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease
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Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition

by Meredith Minkler, Patricia Wakimoto, Lionel J. Beaulieu, Adam B. Becker, Lynn Blanchard, Anne Bluethenthal, Frances Dunn Butterfross, Lisa Cacari Stone, Caricia Catalani0, Charlotte Yu-Ting Chang1, Roxana Chen2, Wayland X. Coleman3, Chris M. Coombe4, Jason Corburn5, Lori Dorfman6, Eugenia Eng7, Nancy Epstein8, Jessica Estrada9, Jennifer Falbe0, Stephanie A. Farquhar1, Prisila Gonzalez2, Joseph Griffin3, Leslie Grover4, Lorraine Gutiérrez5, Trevor Hancock6, Susana Hennesey Laverty7, Reva Hines8, Mark S. Homan9, Lili Farhang0, Solange Gould1, Cheryl A. Hyde2, Barbara A. Israel3, Anthony B. Iton4, Whitney Johnson5, Michelle C. Kegler6, Josh Kirschenbaum7, John P. Kretzmann8, Ronald Labonté9, Blishda Lacet0, Pam Tau Lee1, Edith A. Lewis2, Jennifer Lifshay3, Laura Linnan4, Shaw San Liu5, Shaddai Martinez Cuestas6, Marty Martinson7, John L. McKnight8, Christine Mitchell9, Rachel Morello-Frosch0, Mary Anne Morgan1, Angela Ni2, Barack Obama3, Edith A. Parker4, Susan Racine Passmore5, Manuel Pastor6, Amber Akemi Piatt7, Cheri A. Pies8, Clara Pinsky9, R. David Rebanal0, Kathleen M. Roe1, Zachary Rowe2, Alicia L. Salvatore3, Shannon Sanchez-Youngman4, Amy J. Shulz5, Rinku Sen6, Lee Staples7, Celina Su8, Makani Themba9, Stephen B. Thomas0, Maria Elena Torre1, Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez2, Dierde Visser3, Nina Wallerstein4, Tom Wolff5, Kirsten Wysen6, Marisa Ruiz Asari7, Nickie Bazell8, Derek M Griffith9, Heather Came0 ...

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, ... Read more

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The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color,
... Read more
The Commercial Determinants of Health

Edited by Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, Sandro Galea ...

An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions ... Read more

$51.29 USD

An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions
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Introduction to Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Programming to Combat Rural Poverty: Why Is It Important and What Does It Mean? – Fao Technical Guide 1

by FAOoftheUN ...

Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women's economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done. There is much scope for making social protection ... Read more

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Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women's economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done. There is much scope for making social protection
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Proceedings of the Fao International Symposium on the Future of Food: 10–11 June 2019

by FAOoftheUN ...

While undernutrition persists, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases rise, including in low- and middle-income countries. What is wrong with our food systems? How will we feed a growing and urbanizing world population with natural resources that are more and more limited and depleted?In June 2019, a two-day symposium brought together academics, researchers, policymakers, ... Read more

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While undernutrition persists, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases rise, including in low- and middle-income countries. What is wrong with our food systems? How will we feed a growing and urbanizing world population with natural resources that are more and more limited and depleted?In June 2019, a two-day symposium brought together academics, researchers, policymakers,
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A Handbook of Food Crime

Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

by Sugandi del Canto, Kora Liegh Glatt, Camilla Barbarossa, Dominique Paturel, Coveney John, Sue Booth, Ricardo Cesar Barbosa Junior, Estevan Leopoldo De Freitas Coca, Michael Lynch, Michael Long, Rob White, Stephanie Baran, Jan Deckers, Linnea Laestadius, Xiaocen Liu, Juanjuan Sun, Reece Walters, Eileen Davenport, Ashley Savage, Richard Hyde, Wesley Tourangeau, Amy Fitzgerald, Hongming Cheng, Joseph Asomah, Paul Leighton, Bernd Van Der Meulen, Antonia Corini, Rachel Engler-Stringer, Jan Mei Soon, Louise Manning, Robert Phillips, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Jinky Leilani Del Prado-Lu, Harvey James, Tiziana Pagnani, Ferro Trabalzi, Marcello De Rosa, Martha McMahon ...

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food ... Read more

$46.99 USD

Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food
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Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food

Toward an Inclusive Framework

Edited by Anne C. Bellows, Flavio L.S. Valente, Stefanie Lemke, María Daniela Núñez Burbano de Lara ...

Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the ... Read more

$76.99 USD

This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the
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Food Literacy

Key concepts for health and education

Edited by Helen Vidgen ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity. Eating is an everyday event that is part of everyone’s lives. There are many commentaries on the nature of these changes to what, where and how we eat and their socio-cultural, environmental, educational, economic and health consequences. Among this discussion, the term ... Read more

$62.99 USD

Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity. Eating is an everyday event that is part of everyone’s lives. There are many commentaries on the nature of these changes to what, where and how we eat and their socio-cultural, environmental, educational, economic and health consequences. Among this discussion, the term
... Read more
Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods

The Legal Issues

Edited by Tania Voon, Andrew Mitchell, Jonathan Liberman ...

The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national governments. In this book, experts from a range of backgrounds provide insights into the legal implications of regulating tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy foods, all of which are risk factors for NCDs. As individual countries and ... Read more

$68.99 USD

The need to reduce disability and premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is increasingly engaging international organisations and national and sub-national governments. In this book, experts from a range of backgrounds provide insights into the legal implications of regulating tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy foods, all of which are risk factors for NCDs. As individual countries and
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