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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... the welfare state. His latest book is Public Services or Corporate Welfare: Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy (Pluto, 2001). INTRODUCTION This book is about improving people's health, though that CONTRIBUTORS xiii.
... 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 changes pose fundamental threats to ...
... global sense – is fundamental to maintaining health, and Chapter 2 explores the central issue of sustainability in human activity and how this relates to health. Grouped with this are chapters on national food policy, local transport ...
... Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 (1981) and its Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986). Together, they set out a vision for health improvement that went beyond sanitation engineering, lifestyle health education ...
... globally developed and more inclusive notion of health promotion. Evidence of this reassertion of public health is evident in much of the UK government's recent health strategy. The term health promotion is noticeable by its absence ...
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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 |