256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community. The book begins by exploring the historical roots of health promotion and its relationship to the medical model of health. It moves on to present analyses of... Read more
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
Biography
Theodore Macdonald
