Creating Supportive Environments for Health: Stories from the Third International Conference on Health Promotion
Stories from the Third International Conference on Health Promotion
Published on 1. December 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
214 pages
978-92-4-156180-8 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook puts forward the theory and principles on which action aimed at creating supportive environments should be based. Stories provided by delegates to the International Conference on Health Promotion held in Sweden in 1991 are used to illustrate practical issues and approaches.
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Content
Part 1 Strategies that work: creating favourable conditions for health; obstacles to achieving supportive environments; learning from experience; the health promotion strategy analysis model. Part 2 Settings, voices and experiences: the Sundsvall pyramid of supportive environments; education; food and nutrition; home and neighbourhood; work; transport; social support and care. Part 3 Steps for action: from analysis to action; make your own handbook.