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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 28
... healthy city work at Portsmouth City Council. She worked in health education and promotion in the NHS for 15 years, and more recently directed the masters course in health promotion at Sheffield Hallam University. Marian Barnes is ...
... Healthy City co-ordinator. Previously working with the public sector tenants' movement in London, he has worked in ... Healthy Manchester 2000'. Sue Greig is Health Improvement Manager for South East Sheffield Primary Care Trust (from ...
... health' and 'health promotion' efforts in Britain over the past 200 years. The chapters which follow this discuss the difficulties of creating a mass public health movement and present case studies of healthy city work and health ...
... Healthy City and Health For All projects. In 1988 the UK Health For All Network (UKHFAN) was formed as a membership organization for HFA/Healthy City projects. Despite considerable funding difficulties, the UKHFAN has continued to ...
... health in Glasgow are not new, nor is its position as bottom of the UK's health league table. These problems go back to the development of Glasgow as a major industrial city 150 years ago, which brought low wages, pollution and ...
Contenido
1 | |
5 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Promoting Health: Politics and Practice Lee Adams,Mary Amos,James Munro Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Promoting Health: Politics and Practice Lee Adams,Mary Amos,James Munro Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Promoting Health: Politics and Practice Lee Adams,Mary Amos,James Munro Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |