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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... issues. Fiona Campbell is co-ordinator of the Democratic Health Network at the Local Government Information Unit and a member of Oxfam's governing body. She is interested in the role of local government in reducing health inequalities ...
... issues. Neil Parry is project worker for Sheffield East End Quality Of Life Initiative interested in sustainable community development. James Petts worked in agriculture and the food industry for over ten years in areas of production ...
... issues. Martine Standish currently works in social and community development in public health at Sheffield health authority, and comes from a background in voluntary sector and social work. Melissa Stead is senior research officer at ...
... issue in greater depth, or present a case study of work which has attempted to put theory into practice – though not ... issues of environmental quality, social justice and economic power in favour of constantly calling on individuals ...
... issues which will engage active participation, such as housing, transport or childcare, or attempt to address the ... issue. Though this may be true, and feel like a liberating realization, it is also a trap. Not everything can be ...
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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 |