1st Edition

Health Promotion in the 21st Century New approaches to achieving health for all

Edited By Mary-Louise Fleming, Louise Baldwin Copyright 2020
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

A Choice Highly Recommended Title How should we invest precious health resources? At a time when chronic illness is increasing, inequality persists and climate change is starting to impact our health, how can health promotion improve health outcomes across the whole population? Health Promotion in the 21st Century offers a systematic introduction to the principles of health promotion... Read more
Chapter 1 The importance of health promotion principles and practices

Part 1 Promoting health
Chapter 2 The changing nature of health promotion
Chapter 3 The economics of prevention
Chapter 4 Complexity and risk
Chapter 5 Promoting health in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Part 2 Health promotion in action
Chapter 6 Settings for health promotion
Chapter 7 Social and behaviour change
Chapter 8 Government, organisations and communities
Chapter 9 Policy, legislation and environmental change

Part 3 Health promotion skills in practice
Chapter 10 Planning and implementing health promotion programs
Chapter 11 New ways of thinking about evaluation
Chapter 12 Sustaining the practice of health promotion
Chapter 13 The future for health promotion

Acronyms and abbreviations
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Index

Biography

Professor Mary-Louise Fleming is a Public Health Consultant, a Non-Executive Board Director and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology. She has been a consultant to WHO, to Commonwealth and Queensland health departments, and to the not-for-profit sector. She is co-author with Elizabeth Parker of Health Promotion. Louise Baldwin is an experienced health promotion practitioner and an eminent leader in collaborative health promotion approaches. She has worked at the local, state, national and global level with extensive leadership in the non-profit sector. Louise is now based in the School of Public Health and Social Work at Queensland University of Technology.