Promoting Health: Politics and PracticeLee Adams, Mary Amos, James Munro SAGE, 2002 M04 26 - 224 páginas `A very interesting melange of descriptive material - in the form of case studies - and more analytical and conceptual pieces covering the broad span of the health and well-being agenda′ - Health Matters Promoting Health provides an up-to-date and accessible introduction to current health promotion and public health developments in the UK. The text provides both an outline of health promotion theory and draws on the experience of practitioners to demonstrate health promotion practice and provide students, policymakers and practitioners with practical and theoretical inspiration.
Promoting Health: - shows clearly the links between health promotion theory and practice, by featuring a range of practical case studies - includes short papers on key issues within health promotion - provides a British focus on health promotion but within an international context This highly accessible volume seeks to present views of health promotion from a materialist perspective - a view widely shared in practice, but not previously explored fully within the literature. |
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... Deal for Communities and other regeneration schemes, alongside programmes such as Sure Start and Early Excellence Centres, are attempting to head off disadvantage from the cradle. But at the same time the divide between richest and ...
... community action or state intervention. Newsholme's report of 1913 typifies ... deal with the needs of such vulnerable groups as mothers, infants, school ... local government. These services brought about greater contact with individuals ...
... local government involvement in the health service, an attempt was made to rescue public health activity from extinction by repackaging it as community ... deal of evidence that highlighted appalling inequalities in health, maldistribution of ...
... benefits of walking as part of a sustainable transport policy, for example ... deal with the last question first: because the public health movement is ... communities, better 'joining up' of government actions, and the commitment ...
... community health services' trust had a director and senior officer attached to each area, who liaised with the council ... Deal for Communities. This innovative work assisted several areas in gaining significant resources, developing ...
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Chapter 2 Sustainable development and health | 34 |
Chapter 3 Community development | 63 |
Chapter 4 Social exclusion discrimination and the promotion of health | 92 |
Chapter 5 Regeneration and health | 119 |
Chapter 6 Public services and health | 149 |
Conclusion | 179 |
Bibliography | 183 |
Index | 203 |
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Promoting Health: Politics and Practice Lee Adams,Mary Amos,James Munro Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |