Ruth Cross Bücher

The book offers a comprehensive exploration of the subject, providing a thorough overview that encompasses key concepts, historical context, and contemporary relevance. It serves as an essential resource for understanding the intricacies of the topic, making it suitable for both newcomers and those seeking to deepen their knowledge. The structure allows for easy navigation through various themes and ideas, ensuring readers can grasp the essential elements effectively.

Focusing on the ethics of health promotion, this book explores the intersection of health initiatives with fairness and social justice. It delves into the moral responsibilities involved in promoting health among individuals and communities, emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations in public health strategies. Through a critical lens, it examines how ethical frameworks can guide effective and equitable health promotion practices.

What is health? What does health mean to people? How do we make sense of health and experience it? There are no simple answers to these questions. Health is complex, subjective and varied. Drawing on theory, research and contemporary debates, Ruth Cross explores the nature of health in depth and challenges our thinking about it. Moving beyond taken-for-granted assumptions, she gives the meaning of ‘health’ its due attention, exploring everyday perspectives as well as ‘expert’ medical, academic and policy understandings and approaches. In doing so, the book brings together different knowledge and expertise on health, also considering the inextricable links between human and planetary health. This book is important for all those working in the health field, or training to do so, seeking a broad understanding about health and all its complexity.