Theodore Macdonald (ed.)

The Social Significance of Health Promotion

Herausgeber: Macdonald, Theodore

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Social Significance of Health Promotion" explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community. Beginning with the historical context of health promotion addressed in terms of advocacy issues, this book moves on to present analyses of specific health promotion programs in which the contributors are actively engaged. These chapters take a practitioner's perspective and cover a wide range of issues such as social exclusion, children's mental health professional competency, the role of alternative health promotion in the workplace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415301961
• ISBN-10: 0415301963
• Artikelnr.: 22383035

Autorenporträt

Theodore Macdonald

Inhaltsangabe

b1. Ancient Epistemological Bases for Health Promotion 2. The Development
of Modern Health Promotion 3. The Idea of 'Participation' in Health
Research and Evaluation 4. Participation and Empowerment in Community Care
5. Social Inclusion and Inequalities in Health 6. Promoting Children's
Mental Health 7. Zimbabweans in England: Building Capacity for Culturally
Competent Health Promotion 8. Contested Macroeconomic Policy as Health
Policy: The World Bank in Ukraine 9. Understanding Workplace Health
Promotion 10. Health Promotion and Alternative Medicine 11. The Growing
Social Significance of Health Promotion in Twentieth Century Scotland 12.
Valuing 'Lay' and Practitioner Knowledge in Evaluation: The Role of
Participatory Evaluation in Health Promotion