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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... importance of public services and the sense of ownership of those services, to protecting the ecosystem, impacts on public health. Many of the ideas here broadly run with the grain of much thinking among ministers but this should act as ...
... important is technical knowledge or specialist training? And if health is a matter of good housing, employment, environment, and so on, why do we split 'health promotion' and 'public health' professionals off into a separate sphere of ...
... important antidote to such forgetfulness, and may help us avoid going around in circles. The first chapter of this ... importance of equitable, accessible and effective public services to health is discussed in Chapter 6. Currently there ...
... importance of public ownership is likely to intensify as changes in world trade rules increase the pressure on governments to open their services to marketization. Related chapters discuss the centrality of education to improving health ...
... importance to 'health promotion' and to the principles later embodied in the Ottawa Charter (WHO, 1986). Sigerist believed that the primary task of medicine was to 'promote health', and declared that medicine should be seen as a social ...
Contenido
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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 |
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Promoting Health: Politics and Practice Lee Adams,Mary Amos,James Munro Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |