Health Promotion
Models and Values
Published in February 1990
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-19-261928-0 (ISBN)
Description
The term "health promotion" has come to refer to a movement which has been gathering momentum in the 1980s. The movement is a radical one which challenges the idea that health is just a "medical" issue, stresses its social and economic aspects and portrays health as having a central place in a flourishing human life. This interdisciplinary book provides an overall view of the health promotion movement, a justification of its aims, a value base for its practical activities and an account of its links with related fields of health care. The diverse academic backgrounds of the authors have contributed to this wide-ranging analysis. The book will be of value in the preparation and development of professionals in the many areas which are involved in health promotion, such as medicine, nursing, other health professions, social work, school and community education and community development.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
14 line drawings, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-261928-0 (9780192619280)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 Models: health - defining health, negative health, well-being, positive health, the goal of health promotion; health education - who are the educators?, approaches and ingredients; health promotion - prevention, health protection; evaluation; models in action - health education and a risk factor topic, health promotion and a disease topic. Part 2 Values: attitudes, beliefs and behaviour - the three aspects of attitudes, measuring attitudes; strategies for changing attitudes - providing information, changing behaviour; values - necessary social values, necessary individual or personal values, linking social and personal values; liberalism, autonomy and health - assumptions of liberalism, health as a value, government interventions; justice, health and society - health, health care and health determinants, social justice, explaining the health divide, community and citizenship.