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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... Partnership and Healthy Sheffield. Deborah Harkins is a public health specialist at Wigan and Bolton Health Authority. Sue Laughlin is currently Women's Health Coordinator with Greater Glasgow Health Board where she has responsibility ...
... partnership approaches to regeneration and has a special interest in community participation. Eurig Scandrett has worked in ecological research and adult and community education. He is currently head of community action at Friends of ...
... partnerships' between different organizations, important though these may be. Fundamentally, we believe that the job of securing health for all must involve us in encouraging social changes which lead us to ways of living which are ...
... partnership', particularly between the public and private sectors, as if fundamental conflicts of interest can be resolved simply through discussion. We take the view that those with power never give it up voluntarily, and that the ...
... partnerships to promote health is now accepted by the UK government. The recently established Health Development Agency in England seems to be a concrete expression of this acceptance, although only time will tell whether the agency ...
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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 |