Delgado Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

Implications for Social Work
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-53425-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Delgado, Melvin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik, Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Part One. Setting the Context
1. Introduction
2. A Social Justice Paradigm
3. The Extent of the National Obesity Crisis
4. Health
5. Lack of Access to Healthy Foods
6. Limits to Places and Spaces for Physical Exercise
7. Food Industry Practices
8. Challenges in Measuring Overweight and Obesity
Part Two. Community-Led Health Promotion Approaches
9. Health Promotion
10. Youth-Focused Interventions
11. Community Garden Interventions
12. Community-Based Food Initiatives
13. Implications for Social Work Practice and Research
Epilogue
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melvin Delgado is professor and chair of the macro-practice specialty at the School of Social Work, Boston University. He is the author of twenty books, including Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream: Community Social Work Practice and Economic and Social Development and Social Work Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Youth in the United States.