1st Edition

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health

Edited By Sally Robinson Copyright 2023
438 Pages 91 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

438 Pages 91 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

438 Pages 91 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book and provides many examples of practice. It starts with understanding ourselves and our health and continues with chapters on working in health promotion and public health; epidemiology; research methods and evidence-based... Read more

Part I: Fundamentals of health promotion and public health practice

Chapter 1- Understanding ourselves and our health

Sally Robinson

Chapter 2- Working in health promotion and public health

Louise Holden, Em Rahman, Branwen Thomas and Sally Robinson

Part II: Disciplines and fields of study

Chapter 3- Epidemiology

Rajeeb Kumar Sah and Gail Sheppard

Chapter 4- Research methods and evidence-based practice

Elisabetta Corvo, Joanne Cairns and Sally Robinson

Chapter 5- Health psychology

Murray Allen

Chapter 6- Communicating health

Sally Robinson

Chapter 7- Health education

Sally Robinson

Chapter 8- Health promotion

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Chapter 9- Public health

Rajeeb Kumar Sah, Devendra Raj Singh, Lalita Kumari Sah and Sally Robinson

Chapter 10- Health protection

Meradin Peachey

Chapter 11- Arts and health

Trish (Patricia) Vella-Burrows and Christina Davies

Part III: Tackling priorities for health promotion and public health

Chapter 12- Tackling tobacco, alcohol and drugs

Sally Robinson

Chapter 13- Tackling overweight

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Part IV: Promoting health within settings

Chapter 14- Promoting health in workplaces

Sally Robinson

Chapter 15- Promoting health in the National Health Service

Sally Robinson

Biography

Sally Robinson is a Visiting Reader in Health Promotion and Public Health at Canterbury Christ Church University.