How Long to Read Shifting Paradigms in Public Health

How Long Does it Take to Read Shifting Paradigms in Public Health?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 25 minutes to read Shifting Paradigms in Public Health by Vijay Kumar Yadavendu

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d’être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, population-based understanding that emphasized historicity and interrelatedness to study health and disease in their larger socio-economic and political moorings. A newer tradition, which developed in the late 19th century following the acceptance of the germ theory in medicine, created positivist transitions in epidemiology. In the form of risk factors, a reductionist model of health and disease became pervasive in clinical and molecular epidemiology. The author shows how positivism and the concept of individualism removed from public health thinking the consideration of historical, social and economic influences that shape disease occurrence and the interventions chosen for a population. He states that the neglect of the multifactorial approach in contemporary public health thought has led to growing health inequalities in both the developed and the developing world. He further suggests that the concept of ‘social capital’ in public health, which is being hailed as a resurgence of holism, is in reality a sophisticated and extended version of individualism. The author presents the negative public policy consequences and implications of adopting methodological individualism through a discussion on AIDS policies. The book strongly argues for a holistic understanding and the incorporation of a rights perspective in public health to bring elements of social justice and fairness in policy formulations.

How long is Shifting Paradigms in Public Health?

Shifting Paradigms in Public Health by Vijay Kumar Yadavendu is 203 pages long, and a total of 51,359 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Shifting Paradigms in Public Health Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Shifting Paradigms in Public Health aloud.

What Reading Level is Shifting Paradigms in Public Health?

Shifting Paradigms in Public Health is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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