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Guide to a Healthy Planet
 Foreword
Since the University of Essex first opened its doors to students in 1964, we
have developed a worldwide reputation for academic excellence, being
consistently ranked among the leading universities in the UK for research
and teaching. The university also has a proud record of attracting and
welcoming students from a diverse range of backgrounds nationally and
internationally, with well over 100 countries now represented on campus. Its
global outlook is reinforced by the international origins of its academic
staff who come from 60 different countries.
Over the years, much of our research has been cross-disciplinary and
comparative by nature, with staff from different departments working
together on common research projects and degree schemes. It is for this
reason that I particularly welcome this Guide to a Healthy Planet and its
thematic focus. In recent years, research and teaching on a wide range of
health-related topics have seen significant growth and development at the
University. This volume contains 100 contributions from more than 80 staff
in ten of our departments and centres. It is a snapshot of both the range
and depth of scholarship at the University of Essex that addresses some of
our most pressing health problems and issues – including understanding
illness, developing new therapies, the roles of exercise and lifestyles, the
importance of mental health, the roles of food, environment and society in
health, and finally health services and policy.
The major health problems faced by us today cannot effectively be addressed
from the viewpoint of a single discipline. The Guide to a Healthy Planet
introduces readers to the contribution that researchers working together
within a single University – the University of Essex – are making to
understanding and resolving some of the most difficult national and global
health challenges of the 21st Century. I hope you find reading it both
stimulating and enjoyable.
Professor Ivor Crewe
Vice-Chancellor (2006)
Guide to a
Healthy Planet Content.pdf
Section A
- understanding illness.pdf
Section B
- new therapies.pdf
Section C
- lifestyles, exercise and health.pdf
Section
D - mental health.pdf
Section E
- food and health.pdf
Section
F - the environment and health.pdf
Section
G - society and health.pdf
Section
H - health services and policy.pdf
Hard copies of Guide to a Healthy Planet are available from
the University of Essex priced at £5.99 (including postage and packing). To
obtain a copy please contact Communications Office. Email: comms; non essex
users should add @essex.ac.uk to create a full e-mail address, or telephone:
01206 872400
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