Placing health: neighbourhood renewal, health improvement and complexity
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‘Placing Health’ is the first major publication to use complexity theory to understand the relationships between neighbourhood change, the emergence of states of health, and policy interventions managed using performance indicators. This is complemented by reviews of the international evidence base on area effects and neighbourhood change and is supplemented by new insights from the author’s own research and experience.
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