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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... Benefit and a 70 per cent rise in Income Support for children of unemployed parents, the poorest two deciles were some 10 per cent better off by the 2001 election, while the top decile was just a shade worse off as a result of tax and ...
... intended to improve matters, such as progressive tax and benefit policies, welfare services and health care. But economic inequalities between countries have widened steadily over the past 200 years, and Introduction.
... benefits advice in a primary care setting. Though the various sections of the book can be read independently and in any order, we also hope that you will want to read it all, since the themes we have chosen are all inter-connected, and ...
... . The 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.
... benefits and free school meals, single parent families, and post-16 education (Sherwood and Halliday, 1998). Poverty and poor health in Glasgow are not new, nor is its position as bottom of the UK's health league table. These problems ...
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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 |