Ecological Public Health
Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

Making their case, Rayner and Lang map past confusions in public health images, definitions and models. This is an optimistic book, arguing public health can be rescued from its current dilemmas and frustrations. This century's agenda is unavoidably complex, however, and requires stronger and more daring combinations of interdisciplinary work, movements and professions locally, nationally and globally. Outlining these in the concluding section, the book charts a positive and reinvigorated institutional purpose.

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