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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... HEALTH AND HEALTH PROMOTION MOVEMENTS. Charles. Webster. and. Jeff. French. Although the immediate sources of both health ... ill health gets confused with 'public health' understood as population-level health promotion, which in turn gets ...
... health of the population should be mainly improved by population-level health promotion and prevention, which in turn ... ill health in the prevailing economic system. Although this episode demonstrates that general social activism and a ...
... health was exposed by the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, which reported in 1904. This committee revealed the enormous extent of ill health associated with poverty and economic exploitation, but rather than ...
... health'. Social Medicine accepted that 'health' implied a 'positive' condition, representing much more than freedom from communicable diseases. Achievement of positive health implied a changed attitude to the causes of ill health ...
... ill health was largely the responsibility of individuals whom, through ignorance, were not looking after themselves. It was implied that ill health, rather than being related to poverty, was attributable to affluent lifestyles ...
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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 |