RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Uncertainty and Risk: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Earthscan 2008), edited by Professors Gabriele Bammer and Michael Smithson, is a wide-ranging volume drawing perspectives from art history, complexity science, economics, emergency management, futures, history, intelligence, law, law enforcement, music, philosophy, physics, policy, politics, psychology, statistics and theology.
The Uncertainty and Risk book began life at a conference on Uncertainty held outside Canberra, Australia, in 2005 and is the work of twenty-nine chapter authors and two editors.
"I Want To Be Heard" a research project carried out between 2001 and 2004 by staff from the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service and NCEPH features in an ANTaR publication showcasing successful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health projects.
The booklet, Success Stories in Indigenous Health, was launched on Tuesday 19 June 2006 at Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Services in Canberra by The Hon Tony Abbott, MP, Minister for Health and Nicola Roxon, MP, Shadow Minister for Health
Speakers also included Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Winnunga Nimmityjah CEO, Julie Tongs and ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland.
The publication may be downloaded from the ANTaR website by following the links at www.antar.org.au/success .
The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity
How the Modern World is Making us Fat
Jane Dixon and Dorothy Broom
Think 'seven deadly sins', link them to Australia's runaway obesity epidemic, and most people's minds will turn to St Thomas Aquinas and the likes of Sloth and Gluttony.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity takes an entirely different tack on the topic. It argues that the skyrocketing increase in obesity levels is not caused by individuals' moral weakness, but is due to modern society lacking the virtues necessary for people to adopt and maintain healthy behaviours. In a fresh and highly original approach, the book proceeds to identify a set of seven social and environmental 'sins' that characterise our contemporary world, and then describes how each impacts on the level of obesity. These sins are an obsession with mandatory consumption; an all-pervasive sense of time pressure; parenting pressures; technological obsessions; dependence on car transport; the marketing of unhealthy products; and competing sources of advice.
Each of these key environmental determinants (or 'sins') is introduced and described in its own chapter. After these seven chapters, the book proceeds to explain the unequal distribution for obesity by social, cultural and economic indicators, and concludes with an exploration of what actions are needed to 'save' the environment from its sinful dynamism.
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Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia
Professor Adrian Sleigh is co-editor and author of four chapters of this timely volume which considers the potentially lethal pattern of infectious disease emergence in Asia.
The book was prepared in partnership with the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis at the National University of Singapore (NUS) - one of ANU's partner universities. It is co-edited by Professor Brenda SA Yeoh, Associate Professor Chee Heng Leng, Associate Professor Phua Kai Hong and Dr Rachel Safman - all of NUS. The majority of chapter authors are Asian scholars drawn from universities, institutes and governments across the region.
The book explores the causes and consequences of infectious agents in the region historically and examines such newly emergent natural biological threats as SARS, HIV/AIDS and avian influenza, as well as resurging problems such as tuberculosis. It employs multiple perspectives and places the issues of emerging infection in the context of population dynamics and development of the whole Asian region.
NCEPH Director & Professor, Tony McMichael and Niels Becker, Professor of Biostatistics at NCEPH have also contributed, along with Dr Kathryn Glass and ANU demographer, Dr Zhongwei Zhao.
The book can be ordered through the publishers, World Scientific Co Pte Ltd online bookshop , or by downloading the flyer and order form below.
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