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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... activity threatens to destroy the global ecosystem on which all life depends; and the size and power of global corporate interests have become so great that many of the world's biggest economies are not nations, but companies. Such ...
... activity and how this relates to health. Grouped with this are chapters on national food policy, local transport policy and activism in support of environmental justice. Chapter 3 and the related chapters consider issues of community ...
... introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 revolutionized health care in the UK. However, the benefits were distributed unevenly and the activities most relevant to health promotion were located in the 8 PROMOTING HEALTH.
Politics and Practice Lee Adams, Mary Amos, James Munro. activities most relevant to health promotion were located in the ... activity from extinction by repackaging it as community medicine, but this too was a failure (Lewis, 1986). In ...
... activity. Only if we are prepared to recognize the historic conflict, and the contested nature of health promotion and public health, will it be possible to develop a deeper understanding of how the battle could be more effectively ...
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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 |