
Debates and Dilemmas in Promoting Health
A Reader
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 5. February 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-333-69417-6 (ISBN)
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Description
This accessible and engaging reader encompasses the broad perspective of the health promotion endeavour. It addresses the fundamental principles of health promotion as well as exploring new horizons and raising controversial issues. Containing analysis from academics, practitioners and policy make it teases out the exciting (and sometimes difficult) dilemma facing those who would promote health. It provides an invaluable sourcebook for all professionals, students and campaigners involved in health work. (Developed as a reader to accompany OU course K301).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
601 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-69417-6 (9780333694176)
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all of School of Health and Social Welfare, Open University, Milton Keynes
Content
PART 1 - Antonovsky's 'Sense of Coherence' Theory and Older Peoples' Health; M.Sidell - Tackling Inequalities in Health: Extracts from the Summary; M.Benzeval, K.Judge & M.Whitehead - The Limits of Lifestyle: Re-assessing 'Fatalism' in the Popular Culture of Illness Prevention; C.Davison, S.Frankel & G.Davey Smith - Health Education as Empowerment; K.Tones - The Importance of Social Theory for Health Promotion: From Description to Reflexivity; R.Caplan - Models of Health: Pervasive, Persuasive and Politically Charged; T.Collins - Practice Nursing and Health Promotion: A Case Study; M.Bradford & S.Winn - Counselling People Affected by HIV and AIDS; J.Sketchley - Communication Issues with People from Minority Ethnic Backgrounds; A.Peberdy - The Social Marketing Imbroglio in Health Promotion; R.C.Lefervre - A Case Study of Ethical Issues in Health Promotion: Mammography Screening: The Nurse's Position; A.Dines - Innovation Diffusion Theory and the School Health Education Curriculum Article; G.Macdonald - PART 2 - Explaining the French Paradox; M.L.Burr - Large Outbreak of Salmonella Enterica Serotype Paratyphi B Infection Caused by Goats' Milk Cheese, France, 1993: A Case Finding Epidemiological Study; J-C.Desenclos, P.Bouvert, E.Benz-Lemoine, F.Grimont, H.Desqueyroux, I.Rebiere, P.A.Grimont - Epidemiology: To Be Taken with Care; J.H.Abramson - Job-Loss and Family Morbidity: A Study of a Factory Closure; N.Beale & S.Nethercott - Health Education and Health Promotion: Planning for the 1990s; A.Tannahill - Randomised Controlled Trial Assessing Effectiveness of Health Education Leaflets in Reducing Incidence of Sunburn; P.Dey, S.Collins, S.Will, C.B.J.Woodman - Is Prevention Better than Cure?; C.Godfrey - The Efficacy of Health Promotion, Health Economics and Late Modernism; R.Burrows, R.Bunton, S.Muncer & K.Gillen - Towards a Critical Approach to Evaluation; A.Everitt & P.Hardiker - Evaluating Health Projects: A Challenge in Social Theory; A.Beattie - PART 3 - A Global Approach to Primary Health Care; Y.Coombs - Addressing the Contradictions: Health Promotion and Community Action in the United Kingdom; W.Farrant - Pedagogy of the Oppressed; P.Freire, trans M.Bergman Ramos - Developing Health Promotion Strategies with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities which Address Social Inequalities; J.Douglas - How Community Preferences can More Effectively Shape Equity Policy; S.Jan - Econology: Integrating Health and Sustainable Development. Guiding Principles for Decision-Making; R.Labonte - Health and Environmental Constraints: Listening to Children's Views; L.J.Jones & A.L.Davies - Using Sponsorship to Create Healthy Environments for Sport, Racing and Arts Venues in Western Australia; B.Corti, C.D'Arcy, J.Holman & R.J.Donovan - Health and Transport Policy: A Comparative Review; A.L.Davies - PART 4 - Life-Style, Public Health and Paternalism; D.Beauchamp - The At-Risk Health Status and Technology: A Diagnostic Invitation and the 'Gift' of...(PART CONTENTS)