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Embedding Public Health Policy in the Social Context: Sexual Behaviour and Perceptions of Risk

In: Future Public Health

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  • Zoë Slote Morris
  • Sandra Dawson

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Public health is directed towards improving the health of populations, rather than treating the diseases of individuals. Current English policy is set out in Choosing Health: Making Healthier Choices Easier (Department of Health, 2004) and focuses on individual behaviour change premised on a particular understanding of risk. A risk is defined by the World Health Organisation (2002) as ‘the probability of an adverse outcome, or a factor that raises this probability’ and can be used to refer to an endogenous or exogenous factor which is associated with an elevated chance of disease. Choosing Health focuses on ‘life-style’ risks. These include smoking, alcohol use, obesity and sexual health, and it is on the latter that this chapter focuses.

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  • Zoë Slote Morris & Sandra Dawson, 2009. "Embedding Public Health Policy in the Social Context: Sexual Behaviour and Perceptions of Risk," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sandra Dawson & Zoë Slote Morris (ed.), Future Public Health, chapter 6, pages 135-154, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58254-5_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230582545_7
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