1st Edition

Researching Health Promotion

Edited By Stephen Platt, Jonathan Watson Copyright 2000
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Providing a critical review of the current state of health promotion research. This book re-conceptualises the field of health promotion as collaborative and integrating enterprise, rather than as a battlefield for disciplinary and intellectual clashes. It makes a significant contribution to ongoing epistemological, theoretical and methodological debates in health promotion research. With... Read more
List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 Connecting policy and practice: the challenge for health promotion research, PART I Fresh thinking, PART II Methodological challenges, PART III Good practice, Index

Biography

Stephen Platt, Jonathan Watson

'In an era when the governments promoting 'joined-up thinking' to resolve 'joined-up problems', there-fore, books like this and health promotion more widely may well have a significant role to play. - Jonathan Glasby, Health, Risk and Society