Health Promotion
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-5264-1947-7 (ISBN)
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Globally recognized as the definitive text on health promotion, this fourth edition becomes ever more useful for public health and health promotion courses around the world. It offers a firm foundation in health promotion before helping you to understand the process of planning, implementing and assessing programmes in the real world.
New to the 4th Edition:
A chapter on "Evidence-Based Health Promotion" addressing the development of an evidence base for health promotion.
Expanded coverage of health inequalities, equity and social exclusion
Further discussion of mental health promotion and well-being
Key concepts are now highlighted and explained throughout the book
′Critical reflection’ boxes have been added to help the reader think critically about an issue or approach.
The book is supported by online resources with up to 20 original case studies from around the world, access to full SAGE journal articles, and seminar questions for lecturers.
Ruth is Course Director for Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University. Ruth teaches on a range of modules including health communication, global health and health promotion as well as supervising post-graduate and doctoral research. She has been involved in many projects with the Centre for Health Promotion Research including research into health and wellbeing with vulnerable groups and has led several pedagogical research projects into teaching and learning practice. Ruth has written many papers for peer-reviewed journal and published twelve textbooks with colleagues including, in 2024, Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies 5th Ed; Health Promotion Ethics: A Framework for Social Justice; and Health Promotion & Health Education in Nursing and the monograph ‘What is Health?’. James Woodall is a Senior Lecturer and the Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research. He is also the Course Leader for the MSc Public Health – Health Promotion programme (UK course). His research interest is offender health, particularly health promotion in prison settings. He completed his PhD in 2010, which examined the health promoting prison and how values central to the health promotion discourse are applied to the context of imprisonment. He has since published a number of peer-reviewed articles based on his PhD. He has also published work on young offenders and mental health, the role of prison visitors′ centres for supporting prisoners′ families and research exploring prisoners′ lay views on health. He continues to focus his research attention on the health of the prison population. As Co-Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research, he is also involved in broader health promotion research projects such as oral health promotion and men′s health research. He currently teaches on the MSc Public Health – Health Promotion programme and contributes to other undergraduate and postgraduate areas in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.
Health and health promotion
Assessing health and its determinants
The determinants of health actions
Health promotion planning - a strategic approach
Information needs
Health public policy
Education for health
Mass communication
Working with communities
Settings for health
Evaluation
Evidence-based health promotion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.03.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 1180 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5264-1947-5 / 1526419475 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5264-1947-7 / 9781526419477 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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