A-Z of Health Promotion
Published on 28. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-137-35048-0 (ISBN)
Description
If you are looking for the definitive short guide to the theory and practice of health promotion, then you need look no further.
Written by a leading international expert, this concise text offers, for the first time, a comprehensive explanation of key concepts, terms and definitions used in health promotion. Glenn Laverack explains over 70 key concepts and many other guiding principles, theoretical models and approaches that frame health promotion. He also explains the many tools and strategies that enable practitioners to work more effectively.
This handy sourcebook has been written by the author in a typically accessible style that will provide readers with a superb overview of the subject. Numerous cross-references signpost the connections between different ideas, allowing you to explore conceptual relationships and linked approaches in an order that suits the reader.
Whether you are studying, training or are already working, this book will be an indispensable source of information, evidence and analysis for deepening your understanding and for extending your practice.
A companion source book in the same series, entitled the 'A to Z of Public Health', is intended to further extend the range of definitions and terms.
Written by a leading international expert, this concise text offers, for the first time, a comprehensive explanation of key concepts, terms and definitions used in health promotion. Glenn Laverack explains over 70 key concepts and many other guiding principles, theoretical models and approaches that frame health promotion. He also explains the many tools and strategies that enable practitioners to work more effectively.
This handy sourcebook has been written by the author in a typically accessible style that will provide readers with a superb overview of the subject. Numerous cross-references signpost the connections between different ideas, allowing you to explore conceptual relationships and linked approaches in an order that suits the reader.
Whether you are studying, training or are already working, this book will be an indispensable source of information, evidence and analysis for deepening your understanding and for extending your practice.
A companion source book in the same series, entitled the 'A to Z of Public Health', is intended to further extend the range of definitions and terms.
Reviews / Votes
'This new book is such a useful contribution, as it covers all the key concepts in contemporary health promotion, written by a leading expert in community based, empowering health promotion. It will have wide appeal and will stand as a handy resource for a long while to come' - Professor Rachael Dixey, Centre for Health Promotion Research, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 'The A-Z of Health Promotion provides the reader with comprehensive coverage of many important terms, definitions and interpretations used in health promotion, along with accessible further reading. This is an excellent book.' - Dr Bertha Ochieng, Principal Lecturer, Department of Clinical Education and Leadership, University of Bedfordshire, UK '... the book takes a new and refreshing approach to the theory and practice of health promotion and its pocket-size format makes it an ideal text that will undoubtedly become 'well-thumbed' by those who purchase it.' - Dr James Woodall, Centre for Health Promotion Research, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, for the Californian Journal of Health Promotion "Part of the 'Professional Keywords' series, this slim book is packed full of useful definitions and references ... This is a valuable book for professionals working in all aspects of health education and health promotion." - ChoiceMore details
Series
Edition
2013
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-35048-0 (9781137350480)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-35049-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Glenn Laverack
A-Z of Health Promotion
E-Book
11/2013
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€27.49
Available for download
Person
Glenn Laverack is seen as a leader in health promotion and empowerment and has a distinguished career in public health for more than 25 years working in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and the Pacific regions. He formerly worked as the TDR Coordinator (Empowerment) at the WHO in Geneva and as a senior research fellow at the Southgate Institute, Flinders University, Australia. Dr Laverack is currently an honorary professor at the University of Southern Denmark and has a wide range of publications including books in English, Portugese, Russian and German. His Ph.D. investigated the accommodation of community empowerment within top-down public health programming in the South Pacific. He has a significant range of professional experience in cross-cultural settings that facilitates a broad insight at both a theoretical and practice level.
Content
Advocacy.- Alliances, Partnerships and Coalitions.- Approaches.- Behaviour Change Communication.- Bottom-up and top-down.- Boycotts.- Civil society.- Community.- Community based intervention.- Community capacity building.- Competencies.- Conflict resolution.- Counselling and one to one communication.- Critical consciousness.- Declarations and statements.- Definition.- Determinants of health.- Disease prevention.- Empowerment.- Ethics.- Evaluation.- Evidence based.- Foundations.- Gender and health.- Global health.- Harm reduction.- Health activism.- Health and wellbeing.- Health education.- Health literacy.- Health Profiles.- Health protection.- Healthy public policy.- Health Social Movements.- Hegemonic power.- Hygiene promotion.- Individualism and health.- Information and Communication.- Technology.- Information, Education and Communication.- Injury prevention.- Lay epidemiology.- Leadership.- Leverage.- Life skills.- Lifespan approach.- Lifestyle approach.- Lobbying.- Marginalisation.- Media.- Mental health promotion.- Moral suasion.- Needs assessment.- Networks.- Parallel-tracking.- Patient empowerment.- Peer education.- Photo-voice.- Political.- Power.- Powerlessness.- Pressure groups.- Primary health care.- Public health.- Risk factors.- Salutogenesis.- Screening.- Self-help groups.- Settings.- Social justice.- Social marketing.- Theory and models.- Zero and Non-Zero-Sum.